Classical Ceramography, Production and Iconography
A.Y. 2025/2026
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 that vary from year to year, aims to provide specific and in-depth skills on the different areas of Greek figurative ceramic production (Attic, Corinthian, Laconian, Greco-Oriental, Cycladic ceramics, etc.), in close reference to the cultural universe of producer and consumer of individual ceramics and to the analysis and interpretation of the figurative subjects in both a synchronic and diachronic perspective.
During the 2025-2026 academic year, Part A will be dedicated, as usual, to the technical-productive aspects (manufacturing of the vase, firing, kilns, organization of the workshop, social space of the craftsman, etc.).
The monographic content of Part B is being defined.
Part B will also include a small integrated teaching experiment in collaboration with Professors Alessandro Cavagna (Ancient Numismatics), Luca Peyronel and Agnese Vacca (Archaeology and History of the Ancient Near East), Donatella Erdas (Greek Institutions and Epigraphy), and Alessandro Pace (Archaeology of Magna Graecia) on the following topic "Artisans and Ideas on the Move."
During the 2025-2026 academic year, Part A will be dedicated, as usual, to the technical-productive aspects (manufacturing of the vase, firing, kilns, organization of the workshop, social space of the craftsman, etc.).
The monographic content of Part B is being defined.
Part B will also include a small integrated teaching experiment in collaboration with Professors Alessandro Cavagna (Ancient Numismatics), Luca Peyronel and Agnese Vacca (Archaeology and History of the Ancient Near East), Donatella Erdas (Greek Institutions and Epigraphy), and Alessandro Pace (Archaeology of Magna Graecia) on the following topic "Artisans and Ideas on the Move."
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
The lessons are frontal and take place in the classroom. There are some in-depth seminars by external teachers and lessons of integrated and coordinated teaching with other teachings of the Master's Degree in Archaeology, mostly related to Greek culture, in view of an effectively interdisciplinary approach to the subject.
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 Università, Milano 2012 (and subsequent reprints), chapter 3, pp. 65-129.
Part B (to be defined).
For non-attending students, the program is the one indicated above, to which must be added the reading of:
M. Torelli, Le strategie di Kleitias. Composizione e programma figurativo del vaso Francois, Milano Electa 2007.
The slides of the lessons will be made available on the MyAriel website of the Course.
Part A
G. Bejor, M. Castoldi, C. Lambrugo, E. Panero, "Botteghe e artigiani. Marmorari, bronzisti, ceramisti e vetrai nell'antichità classica", Mondadori Università, Milano 2012 (and subsequent reprints), chapter 3, pp. 65-129.
Part B (to be defined).
For non-attending students, the program is the one indicated above, to which must be added the reading of:
M. Torelli, Le strategie di Kleitias. Composizione e programma figurativo del vaso Francois, Milano Electa 2007.
The slides of the lessons will be made available on the MyAriel website of the Course.
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: 6
Lessons: 40 hours
Professor:
Lambrugo Claudia
Professor(s)