Università Roma Tre

Taking its cue from the lecture series organized by the American School of Classical Archaeology at Athens (ASCSA) (Webinar Greek painting in Context 2021), the monograph-based module aims to provide a broad and in-depth knowledge of Greek painting from the Archaic to the Hellenistic age in the Mediterranean basin through the acquisition of the methodological tools functional to understanding the painting experience in all its aspects (formal and stylistic, iconographic and technical), including in its relations with pottery. As part of the course, the forms and contents of painting will be analyzed in their social and political use (painting, theatrical painting, funerary painting, etc.), and placed in the relevant historical and cultural context. Issues related to new artistic genres closely related to painting such as the figured floor mosaic and painted stucco wall systems that developed during this period will also be explored. Some hours will be devoted to pottery drawing.

Main reference texts (available at la Biblioteca delle arti):
P. Moreno, Pittura greca: da Polignoto ad Apelle, Milano 1987
A. Rouveret, Histoire et imaginaire de la peinture ancienne : 5. siècle av. J.-C. - 1. siècle ap. J.-C., Rome : École française de Rome, 1989
The Cambridge History of Painting in the Classical World, edited by J.J. Pollitt, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2014
Additional teaching materials will be provided during the course of the lectures.