ARIANNA CAMPIANI

EARLY MODERN ART AND TRANSCULTURAL EXCHANGE
This course explores the dynamic form of material and artistic expressions and exchanges following the European colonization of America and their repercussion on the early modern period. Students will learn how encounters among diverse societies shaped urban form, art and ways of life, and how the travelling of objects and ideas influenced the emerging global world. At the end of the course, students will be able to recognize the way indigenous knowledge played a crucial role in the construction of new materialities, architecture and art. Moreover, they will be able to place the European conquest of America within a global cultural and historical context.

TOPIC: EARLY MODERN ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN MEXICO AND TRANSCULTURAL EXCHANGE

WHEN & WHERE:
CLASSES WILL START ON TUESDAY MARCH 10th 2026
TUESDAY 14-16 hrs
FRIDAY 10-12 hrs
(Classrom IV -Aula IV- at the Lettere & Filosofia building)

ALL THE MATERIALS WILL BE AVAILABE ON MOODLE:
https://elearning.uniroma1.it/course/view.php?id=20890

METHOD
The course will incorporate various teaching methods aimed at achieving the learning objectives and engaging students. Lectures will be delivered in a classroom setting, with supplementary materials being read, viewed, discussed, and analyzed in class, facilitating knowledge acquisition and understanding. Seminar-style lectures with external instructors will be held to explore specific topics introduced by the course instructor. Attendance is strongly recommended.
Knowledge of Spanish is recommended due to the possible presence of readings only in the original language

REFERENCES
There is no required textbook for this course. Selected journal articles and book chapters will be uploaded on Moodle.
These will be mainly choose from:
Coe, Sophie D. (1994) 2005. America’s first cuisine. 5th ed. The University of Texas Press.
Dodds Pennock, Caroline. 2016. On Savage Shores : How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe. Orion.
Domenici, Davide. 2017. “Missionary Gift Records of Mexican Objects in Early Modern Italy”. En The New World in Early Modern Italy, 1492–1750, editado por Elizabeth Horodowich y Lia Markey. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316389034.006.
Gruzinski, Serge. 1992. Painting the Conquest: The Mexican Indians and the European Renaissance. Traducido por Deke Dusinberre. Unesco: Flammarion.
Gruzinski, Serge. 2013. The Mestizo Mind. The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization. Traducido por Deke Dusinberre. Routledge.
Levenson, Jay A., ed. 1992. Circa 1492: art in the age of exploration. Yale University Press.
Markey, Lia. 2016. Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence. The Pennsylvania State University Press.
Miller, Mary Ellen, y Barbara Mundy, eds. 2012. Painting a Map of Sixteenth-Century Mexico City. Land, Writing, and Native Rule. Yale University Press.
Mundy, Barbara. 2015. The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City. The University of Texas Press.
Restall, Matthew. 2021. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest. Updated edition. Oxford University Press.
Solari, Amara. 2014. “Plaza, Atrium, and Maya Social Memory in Sixteen-Century Itzamal”. En Mesoamerican Plazas, editado por Kenichiro Tsukamoto y Takeshi Inomata. University of Arizona Press.

OFFICE HOURS
Tuesday 9-12.
Please schedule an appointment with the professor by email: arianna.campiani@uniroma1.it
Building: Lettere e Filosofia, 3rd floor, room 107 (in front of the elevator)

Students unable to attend are requested to notify the instructor of their interest in the course.

Students who are eligible for the special exams are:
1. Family caregivers and young caregivers, upon presentation to the instructor of appropriate documentation certifying their status as a caregiver or young caregiver, such as a Lazio Region Caregiver card or other appropriate document issued by other regions.

2. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Upon registration with the Disability and DSa service, which then mediates with the instructors.

Arianna Campiani si occupa di architettura e urbanistica della Mesoamerica e in particolare delle loro espressioni nell’area Maya durante il Periodo Classico (300-900 CE).
È ricercatrice tenure-track (RTT), SSD CEAR-11/A (Storia dell’Architettura), presso il Dipartimento di Storia, Antropologia, Religioni, Arte, Spettacolo (SARAS).

Dal 2020 al 2022 è stata assegnista Marie Sklodowska-Curie presso il Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità, con il progetto Global Fellowship MAYURB-839602 tra la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Outgoing Phase, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas) e la Sapienza (Host Institution).

Fin dal 2003 ha partecipato in numerosi progetti archeologici nel sud del Messico e dal 2008 lavora a Palenque, Chiapas, insieme alla Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, la University of California- Berkeley, la University of Nevada- Las Vegas e la Universidad Complutense di Madrid.
Il suo approccio allo studio della forma urbana integra in modo interdisciplinare la prospettiva archeologica sull'urbanistica e l'architettura antiche. In particolare, la sua ricerca mira a comprendere lo spazio costruito e quindi l’organizzazione della città, il suo funzionamento, la suddivisione in quartieri, possibili evidenze di pianificazione urbana e infrastrutturale. Parallelamente esplora il modo in cui la forma urbana influisce sulla vita quotidiana e le relazioni sociali, sul movimento, uso e percezione dello spazio.
Si interessa, inoltre, di archeologica digitale, rilievo, studio e conservazione dell’architettura mesoamericana.