Semester:
Spring
Offered:
2023
Ioli Kalavrezou
The course will concentrate on the Mediterranean world during Late Antiquity (4th– 8th centuries). This is a time of cultural changes that set the traditions leading to the medieval world. It will study building activities through a number of major monuments from Rome to Constantinople that transformed urban life as Christianity was becoming the major religion in the Greco-Roman world. It will focus on imperial patronage in these centuries but also through the study of a variety of artifacts follow the evolution of visual language.