B.A. 1990, University of Rome, La Sapienza
Ph.D. 1997, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
Clemente Marconi was educated in Classics at the University of Rome La Sapienza and in Classical Art and Archaeology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. His books, articles, and reviews are dedicated to the Art and Architecture of the Greek world in the archaic and classical periods. Arguing for a closer interaction between the study of ancient art and disciplines such as semiotics, anthropology and hermeneutics, Marconi explores the connection between architecture, the visual arts, and other media (such as rituals, or texts), investigating their form, meaning and social function. An expert in the archaeology of Sicily, Clemente Marconi is the Director of the IFA excavations on the Akropolis of Selinunte. He is also involved in the IFA investigations of the Sanctuary of the Great Gods at Samothrace.
Research interests:
Archaic and Classical Greek Art and Architecture
The reception and the historiography of Ancient Art and Architecture
The Archaeology of Ancient Sicily
Sample courses:
Approaches to Greek Vase Painting
Delphi
Theories of Representation in Archaic and Classical Greek Culture
Approaches to Greek Sculpture
Anthropologies of Greek Art
Selected publications
Books:
Kosmos: The Imagery of the Archaic and Classical Greek
Temple. Forthcoming.
Temple Decoration and Cultural Identity in the Archaic
Greek World: The Metopes of Selinus.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Greek Painted Pottery: Images, Contexts, and
Controversies, ed. and contributor. New
York and Leiden: Brill, 2004.
L'Attività della Commissione di Antichità e Belle Arti in
Sicilia. 5 vols. Palermo: Regione
Siciliana, 1997-2002.
Selinunte. Le metope dell'Heraion. Modena: Panini, 1994.
Articles:
"Urbanism, Architecture, and Visual Arts in the Greek
West." In A Companion to Greek Art,
edited by Tyler Jo Smith and Dimitris Plantzos. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing,
under publication.
"Between Performance and Identity: The Social Context
of Stone Theaters in Late Classical and Hellenistic Sicily." In Theater
Outside Athens: Drama in South Italy and Sicily, edited by Kathryn Bosher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
under publication.
"Early Greek Architectural Sculpture in Function."
In KOINE: Mediterranean Studies in Honor of R. Ross Holloway, edited by D.B. Counts and A.S. Tuck, 4-17. Oxford:
Oxbow Books, 2009.
"The Parthenon Frieze: Degrees of Visibility." Res:
Anthropology and Aesthetics 55/56 (2009): 156-173.
"Gli acroliti da Morgantina." Prospettiva 130-131 (2008): 2-21.
"Il tempio B di Selinunte: Hittorff, Serradifalco e la
disputa sulla policromia dell'architettura greca nell'Ottocento." Sicilia
Antiqua 4 (2008): 59-91.
"I Theoroi di Eschilo e le antefisse sileniche
siceliote." Sicilia Antiqua 2
(2005): 75-93.
"Images for a Warrior. On a Group of Athenian Vases and
their Public." In Greek Painted Pottery: Images, Contexts, and
Controversies, edited by C. Marconi, 27-40.
New York and Leiden: Brill, 2004.
"Kosmos: the Imagery of the Archaic Greek Temple." Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 45
(2004): 211-224.
E. Guidoboni, A. Muggia, C. Marconi, and E. Boschi. "A
Case Study in Archaeoseismology: the Collapses of the Selinunte Temples
(Southwestern Sicily): Two Earthquakes Identified." Bulletin of the
Seismological Society of America 92 (2002):
2961-2982.
"Clitennestra tra delitto e castigo: immagine e
racconto mitico nello spazio sacro della Grecia arcaica." In Im Spiegel
des Mythos. Bilderwelt und Lebenswelt,
edited by F. De Angelis and S. Muth, 31-41. Wiesbaden: Reichert [Palilia, 6],
1999.
"I Titani e Zeus Olimpio. Sugli Atlanti dell'Olympieion
di Agrigento." Prospettiva 87-88
(1997): 2-13.
"La città visibile e i suoi monumenti." In I
Greci. Storia Cultura Arte Società. 2. Una storia greca. I. Formazione, edited by S. Settis, 755-784. Torino: Einaudi,
1996.
Reviews:
Review of Art, Myth, and Ritual in Classical Greece by J.M. Barringer. Bryn Mawr Classical
Review 2009.07.53.
Review of Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Ancient Greek
World by J.G. Pedley. caa.reviews, 2008.
Review of Periklean Athens and its Legacy: Problems and
Perspectives by J.H. Barringer and J.M.
Hurwit, eds.Classical
Review (2007): 212-214.
Review of Die Friese des Siphnierschatzhauses by V. Brinkmann.Gnomon 71
(1999): 140-144.
