Please pick one report topic from List A and one report topic from List B.
If you have any questions about the topics, please don’t hesitate to contact Dr. Och for List A (early modern in Venice and Dubrovnik) or Dr. Houghtalin for List B (ancient in Venice and Croatia). We will be happy to discuss these with you to help you determine your preferences.
After you have your report topics, you’ll meet with each of us one-on-one to review the topic, research questions, and bibliography. As you develop your report, remember that the overarching theme of the course is “empire.”
List A
1. Ca’ d’Oro and 15th-c. Venetian palace design
2. Santa Maria del Rosario, also known as the Gesuati and paintings by Giovanni BattistaTiepolo
3. The Church of Santa Maria della Salute
4. Porta della Carta, entrance to Palazzo Ducale
5. Collecting ancient art in Renaissance Venice
6. Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice, 1500
7. Jacopo Sansovino‘s plans for the Piazza San Marco
8. The building history of the Palazzo Ducale
10. Ducal tombs in the Frari and/or SS. Giovanni e Paolo (called “S. Zanipolo” by the Venetians)
11. Verrocchio’s equestrian monument to Bartolommeo Colleoni (S. Zanipolo)
12. Titian’s Assumption of the Virgin in the Frari
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MzPOrcsWB0[/youtube]
13. Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNvHDpBP-7o[/youtube]
14. Scuola di S. Giovanni Evangelista and narrative painting: Vittore Carpaccio, Miracle of the Relic of the Holy Cross (The Healing of the Madman) (c. 1496) , Gentile Bellini, Procession of the True Cross (c. 1496), Gentile Bellini, Miracle of the Cross at the Bridge of S. Lorenzo (1500), (paintings are in the Accademia; Scuola may not be open, courtyard may be visited)
15. Tintoretto’s Miracle of St. Mark and Carrying of the Body of St. Mark (also called St. Mark’s Body Brought to Venice) (both 1548; for the Scuola di San Marco, now in the Accademia) and the myth of Venice
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e41Wh7jhoxc[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3GFqNYaVRE[/youtube]
16. Scuola Grande dei Carmini and Tiepolo‘s paintings
17. Ca’ Rezzonico, architects Baldassare Longhena (17th c.) and Giorgio Massari (18th c.); paintings by Giambattista Tiepolo
18. The church of Santa Fosca on Torcello
19. 1797 and Napoleon in Venice — the Ala Napoleonica (Piazza San Marco); the looting of art from Venice’s museums and churches
20. Austrian rule in Venice — urban planning and new streets
21. Santiago Calatrava’s Ponte della Costituzione (2008)
22. Dubrovnik’s city walls — Please note, this “Venetian” topic is actually in Croatia! Rebekah
List B
1. Sculpture of Tetrarchs on San Marco, Venice http://venice11.umwblogs.org/the-four-tetrarchs/
2. Arch of the Sergii, Pula http://www.pulainfo.hr/en/kamo-ici/monuments/33/triumphal-arch-of-the-sergi-golden-gate/316/
3. Amphitheater, Pula http://www.pulainfo.hr/en/kamo-ici/monuments/33/amphitheater/240/
4. Gladiatorial contests, Pula http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/arena.html
5. Temple of Augustus, Pula http://www.pulainfo.hr/en/kamo-ici/monuments/33/temple-of-augustus/317/
6. Punishment of Dirce mosaic, Pula http://www.pulainfo.hr/en/kamo-ici/monuments/33/floor-mosaic-the-punishment-of-dirce/319/
7. Forum, Zadar http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/157/
8. Roman Banking, Zadar http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Argentarii.html
9. Paying the Roman Army, Burnum http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Stipendium.html
10. Peristyle, Split http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/97
11. Mausoleum, Split http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/97
12. Roman Baths, Salona http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/baths.html
13. Aqueduct, Salona http://www.romanaqueducts.info/aquasite/salona/index.html