Art History 291 - COLQ: AGE OF NERO

Students may take up to two semesters of ARH 291, “Topics in Art History,” as long as the topics are different.: This course focuses on the Smith College Museum of Art’s Spring 2017 exhibition: Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero: The Villas of Oplontis near Pompeii. Ours is the only East Coast venue for this blockbuster exhibition of the treasures from what may have been the villa of the ill-fated empress Poppaea: sculpture, frescoes, gold jewelry, and objects of everyday life preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE. Working from the objects themselves, the course delves into the social life of things historically and museologically. Group A 

Topic: Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero.