Classical Ceramography
A.Y. 2022/2023
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 cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
The course on Greek Pottery, through monographs varied from year to year, aims to provide specific and in-depth skills on the different Greek figured ceramics (Attic, Corinthian, Laconic, Greek-Oriental, Cycladic etc.).
The course of the academic year 2022-2023 opens with an introduction on technical-productive aspects which are to be considered valid for all Greek ceramics (Teaching Unit A). Teaching Unit B focuses on Corinth and its ceramics in the Archaic period (7th-6th Century BC): after briefly illustrating historical developments, urban planning and cultural imagery of the city of Corinth between 7th and 6th century BC, we will move to Black Figure Corinthian pottery, whose stylistic development, main potters and painters, iconographic issues will be addressed. The last part of the course (Part C) will be reserved for the decoding of animal universe painted on Corinthian ceramics, according to very recent interpretative approaches which, in a close dialogue between literary sources and the painted image, bring to light a very lively and instructive link between the Greek world and the animal universe.
The course of the academic year 2022-2023 opens with an introduction on technical-productive aspects which are to be considered valid for all Greek ceramics (Teaching Unit A). Teaching Unit B focuses on Corinth and its ceramics in the Archaic period (7th-6th Century BC): after briefly illustrating historical developments, urban planning and cultural imagery of the city of Corinth between 7th and 6th century BC, we will move to Black Figure Corinthian pottery, whose stylistic development, main potters and painters, iconographic issues will be addressed. The last part of the course (Part C) will be reserved for the decoding of animal universe painted on Corinthian ceramics, according to very recent interpretative approaches which, in a close dialogue between literary sources and the painted image, bring to light a very lively and instructive link between the Greek world and the animal universe.
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
For students attending classes:
Teaching Unit A
G. Bejor, M. Castoldi, C. Lambrugo, E. Panero, Botteghe e artigiani. Marmorari, bronzisti, ceramisti e vetrai nell'antichità classica, Mondadori Università, Milano 2012 (e successive ristampe), capitolo 3, pp. 65-129.
Teaching Unit B
A. Coulié, La céramique grecque aux époques géometrique et orientalisante, Paris 2013, pp. 105-141.
C. Lambrugo, Corinto "profumata": Afrodite e la via dell'iris, in L. Grasso, F. Caruso, R. Gigli Patané (a cura di), Sikelika Hiera, Approcci multidisciplinari allo studio del sacro nella Sicilia greca, Atti del Convegno di Studi (Catania CNR-IBAM, 11-12 Giugno 2010), Catania 2020, pp. 383-392.
E. Pemberton, Wine, Women and Songs: Gender Roles in Corinthian Cult, in Kernos 13 (2000), pp. 85-106.
G. Monterosso, Processione muliebre su una pisside corinzia di Siracusa: dono votivo ad Artemide Chitonea?, Bollettino d'Arte 19-20 (serie VII, 2013), pp. 3-12.
C. Lucchese, Danza e vino nella ceramica corinzia: la figura del padded dancer, in "Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università di Bari" 50 (2007), pp. 17-48.
Teaching Unit C
C. Lambrugo, La pantera, il cacciatore e il profumo. Riflessioni intorno a due aryballoi del Chimaera Group a Gela, in Les huiles parfumées en Méditerranée occidentale et en Gaule (VIIIe siècle av. - VIIIe siècle apr. J.-C.), Actes du colloque international (Rome 2009), a cura di D. Frère, L. Hugot, Naples-Rennes 2012, pp. 257-266.
J.M. Hurwit, Lizards, Lions and the Uncanny in Early Greek Art, in "Hesperia" 75 (2006), pp. 121-136.
J. de La Genière, Faut-il avoir peur des lezards?, in Across Frontiers. Etruscans, Greeks, Phoenicians and Cypriots. Studies in honour of David Ridgway and Francesca Romana Serra Ridgway, a cura di E. Herring, I. Lemos, F. Lo Schiavo et Alii, London 2006, pp. 157-165.
S. De Francesco, I bambini e gli animali nel mondo greco: la scimmia, in A. Ceresa Mori, C. Lambrugo, F. Slavazzi (a cura di), L'infanzia e il gioco nel mondo antico, Milano 2012, pp. 44-47.
M. Vespa, Animal Metaphors and Metadrama. A Cultural Insight into the verb Pithekizein, in E. Paillard, S. Milanezi (a cura di), Theatre and Metatheatre, Berlin-Boston 2021, pp. 193-211.
For non attending students:
Same bibliography (see above) plus:
Argilla. Storie di vasi, a cura di M. Salvadori, M. Baggio, L. Zamparo, Padova 2021.
The aforementioned papers in Teaching Units B and C will be available for download in Ariel web site.
For all students: slides of the classes will be available on Ariel web site.
Teaching Unit A
G. Bejor, M. Castoldi, C. Lambrugo, E. Panero, Botteghe e artigiani. Marmorari, bronzisti, ceramisti e vetrai nell'antichità classica, Mondadori Università, Milano 2012 (e successive ristampe), capitolo 3, pp. 65-129.
Teaching Unit B
A. Coulié, La céramique grecque aux époques géometrique et orientalisante, Paris 2013, pp. 105-141.
C. Lambrugo, Corinto "profumata": Afrodite e la via dell'iris, in L. Grasso, F. Caruso, R. Gigli Patané (a cura di), Sikelika Hiera, Approcci multidisciplinari allo studio del sacro nella Sicilia greca, Atti del Convegno di Studi (Catania CNR-IBAM, 11-12 Giugno 2010), Catania 2020, pp. 383-392.
E. Pemberton, Wine, Women and Songs: Gender Roles in Corinthian Cult, in Kernos 13 (2000), pp. 85-106.
G. Monterosso, Processione muliebre su una pisside corinzia di Siracusa: dono votivo ad Artemide Chitonea?, Bollettino d'Arte 19-20 (serie VII, 2013), pp. 3-12.
C. Lucchese, Danza e vino nella ceramica corinzia: la figura del padded dancer, in "Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università di Bari" 50 (2007), pp. 17-48.
Teaching Unit C
C. Lambrugo, La pantera, il cacciatore e il profumo. Riflessioni intorno a due aryballoi del Chimaera Group a Gela, in Les huiles parfumées en Méditerranée occidentale et en Gaule (VIIIe siècle av. - VIIIe siècle apr. J.-C.), Actes du colloque international (Rome 2009), a cura di D. Frère, L. Hugot, Naples-Rennes 2012, pp. 257-266.
J.M. Hurwit, Lizards, Lions and the Uncanny in Early Greek Art, in "Hesperia" 75 (2006), pp. 121-136.
J. de La Genière, Faut-il avoir peur des lezards?, in Across Frontiers. Etruscans, Greeks, Phoenicians and Cypriots. Studies in honour of David Ridgway and Francesca Romana Serra Ridgway, a cura di E. Herring, I. Lemos, F. Lo Schiavo et Alii, London 2006, pp. 157-165.
S. De Francesco, I bambini e gli animali nel mondo greco: la scimmia, in A. Ceresa Mori, C. Lambrugo, F. Slavazzi (a cura di), L'infanzia e il gioco nel mondo antico, Milano 2012, pp. 44-47.
M. Vespa, Animal Metaphors and Metadrama. A Cultural Insight into the verb Pithekizein, in E. Paillard, S. Milanezi (a cura di), Theatre and Metatheatre, Berlin-Boston 2021, pp. 193-211.
For non attending students:
Same bibliography (see above) plus:
Argilla. Storie di vasi, a cura di M. Salvadori, M. Baggio, L. Zamparo, Padova 2021.
The aforementioned papers in Teaching Units B and C will be available for download in Ariel web site.
For all students: slides of the classes will be available on Ariel 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
Professor(s)