Ancient Art and Archaeology: The Copenhagen Collections
Fall Semester only
| 3 credits
| Elective
Majors:
Archaeology,
Art History,
and
Classics
This course focuses on the art and archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome from c. 1000 B.C. to c. 300 A.D and considers the formative influence of the Egyptian and Near Eastern civilizations. Stylistic and iconographical developments, as well as cultural meaning and historical context, will be emphasized. As part of this course, students will have the opportunity to study objects in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and the National Museum of Denmark, both of which possess superb collections of art and artifacts ranging from the Minoan to the Late Roman periods.
Field Studies
- Royal Cast Collection
- This huge collection of ancient casts is one of the oldest in Europe. DIS students, like many art and art history students since 1895, use this cast collection to study the development of ancient art.
- Thorvaldsens Museum
- Bertel Thorvaldsen is a famous Danish neo-classical sculptor who lived and worked for many years in Italy. He was inspired by the works of ancient Rome, and DIS students gain first-hand experience of his works in this museum which was specially designed to house and display his sculptures in 1848.
Instructors
-
Thyge C. Bro
Mag.art. (Classical Archaeology, University of Copenhagen, 1984). External lecturer in art history at the University of Copenhagen, 1985-1998. External lecturer in classical archaeology at the University of Southern Denmark, 1998-2000. With DIS since 2006.
