AHistory Of The Study Of South Italian Black And Redfigure Pottery

This Book Offers An Overview Of The Whole Period From The First Evidence Of The Roman Rediscovery Of Figured Vases Until The End Of The th CenturyIt Looks At How Figured Vases Were Received In Each Successive Period And How This Determined The Way They Were StudiedFirst, The Roman Urge To Collect Vases Purely As Both Decorative Curiosities Found Locally And As Trophies Form CorinthThen After Many Centuries Of Silence, The Mediaeval Discovery Of Vases In Tuscany And Particularly Around Arezzo And The Belief That These Vases Must Be Supernatural Because The Painting On Them Was Beyond The Skills Of Contemporary ArtistsThis Was Followed By The Later Use Of Vases As Complements To The Display Of Sculpture And To Their Being Regarded As Of Secondary ImportanceBy The th Century, Vasepainting Was Being Studied For Its Iconography And As Comparative Material With Ancient TextsFinally The Search For The Origin Of The Vases Themselves Became The Great Debate, And These Supposed Origins Were Also Used For Political EndsIn The th Century, Classification Took Over As The Main Type Of ScholarshipIn The th Century, Images Of Life Depicted In Vasepaintings Are Used As AVehicle Through Which The Ancient World Is UnderstoodThe Focus Of This Work Is The History Of ScholarshipIt Looks At The Aspects Of Study That Each Subsequent Century Thought Important, The Varied Forms Scholarly Debate Took, And The Responses Which Ordered The Direction Of ResearchThe History Of Collections Is Also Of Importance To This Study As The Contents Of Collections Can Reveal How Certain Types Of Figured Vases Were Favoured Over Others And Were Disseminated To AWider Audience, Thereby Gaining More Prominence And Being More Closely StudiedVases Could Not Be Studied At Leisure Until They Were Placed In ASafe, Permanent Environment, So Collections Were The Basis Of Vase Study And Subsequent PublicationsFinally, The Author Looks at How Ancient Vases Were and To ACertain Extent Still Are Regarded Compared With The More Revered Subjects Of Ancient Literature And Classical Sculpture.
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