Classical Ceramography
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
The course aims to refine students' critical ability and stylistic sensitivity in reading Greek ceramics, which represent the main dating tool for archaeological contexts and for decoding cultural meanings.
Expected learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding: At the end of the course students are expected to be able to orient themselves on the main productions and styles of figured Greek pottery, with particular reference to those ceramic classes not addressed in the basic course of Archeology and History of Greek Art, therefore Corinthian, Laconian, East Greek, Cycladic pottery etc.
Applying knowledge and understanding: Students are also expected to have acquired a good level of understanding and decoding iconography and to be introduced into the most crucial criteria for identifying painters and workshops.
Applying knowledge and understanding: Students are also expected to have acquired a good level of understanding and decoding iconography and to be introduced into the most crucial criteria for identifying painters and workshops.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
The classical ceramography course, through monographs which vary from year to year, aims to provide specific and in-depth skills in the different areas of figured Greek ceramic production (Attic, Corinthian, Laconic, East Greek, Cycladic, etc.), in close reference to the the cultural universe of producer and consumer of individual ceramics and the analysis and interpretation of figured subjects in both a synchronic and diachronic perspective.
During the academic year 2024-2025, Part A will be dedicated, as usual, to the technical-productive aspects (manufacture of the vase, firing, kilns, organization of the workshop, social space of the artisan, etc.).
Part B, entitled "Exekias, a great master between tradition and originality", will be a monographic module dedicated to illustrating the pictorial hand, the artisan career and the figurative subjects (with particular reference to the heroes Achilles and Ajax) of a great protagonist of ceramics Attic black-figure, active in the third quarter of the 6th century. B.C.
During the academic year 2024-2025, Part A will be dedicated, as usual, to the technical-productive aspects (manufacture of the vase, firing, kilns, organization of the workshop, social space of the artisan, etc.).
Part B, entitled "Exekias, a great master between tradition and originality", will be a monographic module dedicated to illustrating the pictorial hand, the artisan career and the figurative subjects (with particular reference to the heroes Achilles and Ajax) of a great protagonist of ceramics Attic black-figure, active in the third quarter of the 6th century. B.C.
Prerequisites for admission
For more effective and fruitful results, a general competence on the development of Greek art, Greek history and / or on Greek literature is strongly recommended.
Teaching methods
Classes are in-person classes and take place in the classroom. In-depth lectures are scheduled by professors from other Universities and Research Institutes.
Teaching lessons integrated with other master courses equally related to Greek culture (courses in Greek Archeology, Archeology of Magna Graecia and Greek Literature) will be provided for an effectively interdisciplinary approach to matter.
Teaching lessons integrated with other master courses equally related to Greek culture (courses in Greek Archeology, Archeology of Magna Graecia and Greek Literature) will be provided for an effectively interdisciplinary approach to matter.
Teaching Resources
Exam program for attending students:
Part A
G. Bejor, M. Castoldi, C. Lambrugo, E. Panero, "Botteghe e artigiani. Marmorari, bronzisti, ceramisti e vetrai nell'antichità classica", Mondadori University, Milan 2012 (and subsequent reprints), chapter 3, pp. 65-129.
Part B
The bibliography will consist of the reading of three following essays:
- M. Iozzo, Exekias nel panorama della produzione vascolare del suo tempo, in Ch. Reusser, M. Burge (a cura di), Exekias hat mich gemalt und getoepfert, catalogo della mostra (Zurigo 2018-2019), Zurigo 2018, pp. 17-31;
- A. Mackay, Exekias as Potter and Painter in his Workshop, ibidem, pp. 48-59;
- M. Sannibale, L'anfora firmata con Achille e Aiace dei Musei Vaticani, ibidem, pp. 112-126.
Pdf of the aforementioned essays will be available for download on MyAriel by the start of the course.
Non-attending students have the same exam programme, to which the reading of: "Argilla. Storie di vasi", a cura di M. Salvadori, M. Baggio, L. Zamparo, Padova 2021 (downloadable from the internet) must be added.
Anyone who has to take the 9 credit exam will read also:
M. Torelli, Le strategie di Kleitias. Composizione e programma figurativo del vaso Francois, MIlano Electa 2007.
Slides of the classes will be available on MYAriel web site.
Part A
G. Bejor, M. Castoldi, C. Lambrugo, E. Panero, "Botteghe e artigiani. Marmorari, bronzisti, ceramisti e vetrai nell'antichità classica", Mondadori University, Milan 2012 (and subsequent reprints), chapter 3, pp. 65-129.
Part B
The bibliography will consist of the reading of three following essays:
- M. Iozzo, Exekias nel panorama della produzione vascolare del suo tempo, in Ch. Reusser, M. Burge (a cura di), Exekias hat mich gemalt und getoepfert, catalogo della mostra (Zurigo 2018-2019), Zurigo 2018, pp. 17-31;
- A. Mackay, Exekias as Potter and Painter in his Workshop, ibidem, pp. 48-59;
- M. Sannibale, L'anfora firmata con Achille e Aiace dei Musei Vaticani, ibidem, pp. 112-126.
Pdf of the aforementioned essays will be available for download on MyAriel by the start of the course.
Non-attending students have the same exam programme, to which the reading of: "Argilla. Storie di vasi", a cura di M. Salvadori, M. Baggio, L. Zamparo, Padova 2021 (downloadable from the internet) must be added.
Anyone who has to take the 9 credit exam will read also:
M. Torelli, Le strategie di Kleitias. Composizione e programma figurativo del vaso Francois, MIlano Electa 2007.
Slides of the classes will be available on MYAriel web site.
Assessment methods and Criteria
Assessement methods consist of an oral test, that is, an interview on the topics of the course. The test aims to highlight students' stylistic ability and chronological knowledge referring to the types of pottery addressed in the classes.
L-ANT/07 - CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY - University credits: 9
Lessons: 60 hours
Professor:
Lambrugo Claudia
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