CLASSICAL VASE PAINTING

Academic Year 2021/2022 - 2° Year
Teaching Staff: Elvia Maria Letizia GIUDICE
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: L-ANT/07 - Classical archaeology
Taught classes: 36 hours
Term / Semester:
ENGLISH VERSION

Learning Objectives

Painted vases give the fullest visual account of life and mythology in ancient Greece, and provide important archaeological data for refining and adding to knowledge of various aspects of ancient Greek culture. In addition to iconography, the course will look at the techniques, styles and of Greek vases, from the eighth to the fourth century B.C.


Course Structure

The course will be structured in three parts, a first part in which we will discuss problems of periodization and explain how to date the Greek vases; a second one, in which the main pottery types will be distinguished, and, finally, a third in which the main iconographic schemes will be illustrated.


Detailed Course Content

Study of the main documents of Greek pottery with particular focus on the iconographic content, analyzed in relation to the historical and social context of each era; specific attention will be devoted to the study of the main techniques and styles of attic pottery.


Textbook Information

A Fondamenti della disciplina: inquadramento generale e periodizzazioni della ceramografia greca (4 CFU)

Testi:

J. Boardman, Storia dei vasi greci, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Roma 2004, pp. 11-244.

Capitolo 1: storia dei vasi greci, dal geometrico alla tecnica a figure rosse

Capitolo 2: la connoisseurship, pp. 128-138

Capitolo 3: vasai e ceramografi pp. 139-152

Capitolo 4: il commercio, pp. 153-167

Capitolo 5&6 : la decorazione figurata: miti e scene di vita quotidiana, pp. 168-244

I. Scheibler, Il vaso in Grecia, Longanesi, Milano 2004, pp. 18-66, 81-151.

Capitolo I.1/2/3: forma funzionale ossia le forme vascolari nella vita quotidiana, nel culto funerario/ nei santuari

Capitolo II. Le tecniche di fabbricazione dei vasi, il tornio, l’argilla, le tecniche di decorazione

B Seminari tecnico/tematici su argomenti scelti dal docente (2 CFU)

- G. Bejor, M. Castoldi, C. Lambrugo, Elisa Panero, Botteghe e artigiani, Milano 2012, cap. 3, pp. 65-129.

- M. Ceci, R. Santangeli Valenzani, La ceramica nello scavo archeologico, Roma 2016, .

- Appunti dalle lezioni oppure M. Torelli, Le strategie di Kleitias, Milano, Electa 2007, pp. 9-116.

 

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