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March 25: Introduction and Overview
April 1: Bronze, Stone, and Material Hierarchies
(*) Kenneth Lapatin. 2003. 鈥淭he Fate of Plate and Other Precious Materials: Towards a Historiography of Ancient Greek Minor (?) Arts,鈥 in Ancient Art and Its Historiography, eds. A. A. Donohue and Mark D. Fullerton. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 69鈥91
Carol Mattusch. 2011. 鈥淭he Privilege of Bronze: Modern Perception of Classical Materials,鈥 in Revival and Invention: Sculpture Through Its Material Histories, eds. S茅bastien Clerbois and Martina Droth. Oxford: Peter Lang. 17鈥30
(*) Mark Bradley. 2009. 鈥淭he Importance of Colour on Ancient Marble Sculpture,鈥 Art History 32.3: 427鈥457
Clarissa Blume-Jung. 2017. 鈥淭he Treasure of Polychromy: Polychrome Decoration of Ancient Sculptures as a New Source of Information on Ancient Culture,鈥 in The Diversity of Classical Archaeology, eds. Achim Lichtenberger and Rubina Raja. Turnhout: Brepols. 323鈥340
April 8: Blue, White, and Black
(*) Jennifer M. S. Stager. 2016. 鈥淭he Materiality of Color in Ancient Mediterranean Art,鈥 in Essays in Global Color History: Interpreting the Ancient Spectrum, ed. Rachael B. Goldman. Piscataway: Gorgias Press. 97鈥119 MADDIE
(*) Sarah F. Derbew. 2022. Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. xiii鈥搙v ("Note on Nomenclature"), 29鈥65 (Ch. 2: "Masks of Blackness: Reading the Iconography of Black 海角网 in Ancient Greece").
(*) Fabio Barry. 2011. 鈥淎 Whiter Shade of Pale: Relative and Absolute White in 海角网 Sculpture and Architecture,鈥 in Revival and Invention: Sculpture Through Its Material Histories, eds. S茅bastien Clerbois and Martina Droth. Oxford: Peter Lang. 31鈥48
Jennifer Stager. 鈥淭he Unbearable Whiteness of Whiteness,鈥 Art Practical (1/16/2018)
Optional/Recommended: Alexander Nagel. 2023. Color and Meaning in the Art of Achaemenid Persia. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 173鈥199 (Ch. 5: 鈥淒iscussion: Aspects of Nonverbal Communication in the Achaemenid Persian Empire鈥)
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April 15: Amber, Glass, Chryselephantine, and Marble
(*) Hariclia Brecoulaki et al. 2014. 鈥淎 Microcosm of Colour and Shine: The Polychromy of Chryselephantine Couches from Ancient Macedonia,鈥 罢别肠丑苍猫 40: 9鈥22
(*) Richard Neer. 2018. 鈥淎mber, Oil, and Fire: Greek Sculpture beyond Bodies,鈥 Art History 41.3: 466鈥491 JIANI
(*) Fabio Barry. 2007. 鈥淲alking on Water: Cosmic Floors in Antiquity and the Middle Ages,鈥 Art Bulletin 89.4: 627鈥656
(*) Nicola Barham. 2021. 鈥溾楨verything Impossible鈥: Admiring Glass in Ancient Rome,鈥 in New Approaches to Ancient Material Culture in the Greek and 海角网 World: 21st-Century Methods and Classical Antiquity, ed. Catherine Cooper. Leiden: Brill. 136鈥158 CAT
April 22: Gold, Vermilion, and Writers on Ancient Art
(*) Cecilie Br酶ns. 2022. 鈥淎ll that Glitters is Gold: Golden Textiles in the Ancient Mediterranean,鈥 in Textiles in Ancient Mediterranean Iconography, eds. Susanna Harris, Cecilie Br酶ns, and Marta 呕uchowska. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 121鈥138 STEPHANIE
(*) Anna Anguissola. 2022. 鈥淓thical Matters: Pliny the Elder on Material Deception,鈥 in Materiality in 海角网 Art and Architecture: Aesthetics, Semantics, and Function, eds. Annette Haug, Adrian Hielscher, and M. Taylor Lauritsen. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. 39鈥50 A.M.
(*) Marden Nichols. 2016. 鈥淰itruvius on Vermilion: Faberius鈥檚 Domestic D茅cor and the Invective Tradition,鈥 Arethusa 49: 317鈥333 CADEN
April 29: Human Labor and the Movement of Stones
(*) Mark Letteney (11/1/2021), Twitter/X thread on giallo antico and incarcerated labor (PDF)
- to be presented with Larsen 2019
(*) Matthew D. C. Larsen. 2019. 鈥淐arceral Practices and Geographies in 海角网 North Africa,鈥 Studies in Late Antiquity 3.4: 547鈥580 (focus on 557鈥563, 565鈥570 [top]; if you鈥檙e presenting, read the whole article)
- to be presented with Letteney 2021 (Twitter/X thread)
(*) Hazel Dodge. 2016. 鈥淔rom Quarry to Metropolis: The Journey of an Egyptian Granite Column from Mons Claudianus in Egypt to the Pantheon in Rome,鈥 Hermathena 200/201: 187鈥217 GUY
(*) Patrizio Pensabene. 2016. 鈥淓gyptian Stones from the Eastern Desert and Aswan: The Role of Alexandria in their Trade,鈥 Marmora 12: 11鈥64 BECK
May 6: More Human Labor: Potters, Painters, and Purpurarii
(*) Brigitte Bourgeois. 2014. 鈥淭h茅rap茅ia: Taking Care of Colour in Hellenistic Greece,鈥 in Transformations: Classical Sculpture in Colour, eds. Jan Stubbe 脴stergaard and Anne Marie Nielsen. Copenhagen: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. 190鈥207 ANNA
(*) Sanchita Balachandran. 2019. 鈥淏ringing Back the (Ancient) Bodies: The Potters鈥 Sensory Experiences and the Firing of Red, Black and Purple Greek Vases,鈥 Arts 8.70: 1鈥24 PARKER
(*) Clarissa Blume-Jung. 2021. 鈥淭he Polychromy of Palmyrene Portraits: Workmen and Colouration,鈥 in Production Economy in Greater 海角网 Syria: Trade Networks and Production Processes, eds. Rubina Raja and Julia Steding. Turnhout: Brepols. 33鈥48
(*) Natalie M. Susmann. 2020. 鈥淭yrian, True, Royal, or Real: Archaeological Assumptions about the 海角网 Murex Dye Industry,鈥 Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 8.3: 159鈥173 DAI
- to be presented with Lowe 2017
(*) Benedict J. Lowe. 2017. 鈥Purpurarii in the Western Mediterranean,鈥 in Treasures from the Sea: Purple Dye and Sea Silk, eds. Hedvig Landenius Enegren and Francesco Meo. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 154鈥158 DAI
- to be presented with Susmann 2020
May 13: Research Presentations
1) Guy
2) Dai
3) A. M.
4) Caden
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May 20: Research Presentations
1 Cat
2) Anna
3) Parker
4) Stephanie
5) Maddie
6) Beck
May 27: No class鈥擬emorial Day