HISTORY OF BYZANTINE ART - HOBA
STORIA DELL'ARTE BIZANTINA
· Prof. ssa Grazia Marina Falla
· Course Outline
The course will consist of wide ranging subjects concerning the study
and reconstruction (by means of a historical and above all archaeological
and artistic approach) of the political, socio-economic and cultural life
of the millenary Byzantine Empire (from 330-1453 A.D). The course will
be based on a historical and above all, an archaeological and artistic
approach (with particular reference to various written sources such as
documentary, epigraphic, hagiographic). Moreover, the subject is of great
relevance within a local context, with regard to the "Terra d'Otranto".
This was a province of the Byzantine Empire (from the end of the 9th Century
until the end of the 11th Century) where archaeological and artistic heritage
continued to thrive, even after Byzantine rule, due to close relations
with Byzantium and other areas within the Empire, above all Greece.
· Further Activities
Cataloguing of all artistic finds from late antiquity and the Byzantine
age present in the area.
A survey of the land around the Gulf of Mandalya in Caria (Asia Minor)
in conjunction with the Italian Archaeological Mission, involving the
participation of several universities.
