Il mondo del vaso Chigi: Pittura, guerra e società a Corinto alla metà del VII secolo a.C.

Matteo D'Acunto

Published by De Gruyter 2013

Il mondo del vaso Chigi

Pittura, guerra e società a Corinto alla metà del VII secolo a.C.

Matteo D'Acunto

Volume 12 in the series Image & Context

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110314212

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This book analyses the stylistic, iconographic and historical aspects of the Chigi vase, the famous Protocorinthian olpe dating back as early as ca. 650 BC. The vase is the masterpiece of the Chigi Painter, a skilful vase-painter who was acquainted as well with the big size Corinthian painting. The different themes, which run along the three main friezes, link each other in order to build up a true iconographic program: its key point is the distinction between the lower frieze for the ephebes’ paideia and the two main friezes which show the Corinthian elites through their activities – either real or symbolic ones – and distinguishing attributes. Paris’ judgment is meant as part of this iconographic program as it shows, through a mythical paradigm, a necessary step of the life, i.e. the wedding, as well as the risks that it involves. The socio-political interpretation of the iconographic program opens the historical question of which system could be implied, as the vase was painted in a critical moment of Corinthian history, i.e. in the period when Kypselos became tyrant and exiled the Bakchiads. Finally, on the background of Demaratus’ tradition, the analysis investigates a possible scenario for the arrival of the Chigi olpe in the hands of an Etruscan prince of Veii, in whose tumulus it was found in 1882.

Il libro è dedicato all’olpe Chigi, il celebre vaso protocorinzio della metà del VII sec. a.C., di cui vengono analizzati gli aspetti stilistici, iconografici e storici. Il pittore è un abilissimo ceramografo, che dimostra anche una contiguità con la prima pittura corinzia di grande formato. Il programma iconografico dell’olpe esprime l’ideologia ed il contesto storico della committenza, ponendo il problema di quale società vi sia riflessa, in un momento critico della storia di Corinto, quello che conosce il passaggio dall’oligarchia alla tirannide.

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Matteo D'Acunto, Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale, Italy.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Ringraziamenti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Indice Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Ida Baldassarre, Premessa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Tavole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvii
Introduzione Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Il contesto di rinvenimento. Il tumulo di Monte Aguzzo a Veio, la tomba di una famiglia principesca etrusca Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
2. Il Pittore Chigi. Le sue opere e la sua personalità a cavallo tra ceramografia e grande pittura Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
3. Il programma iconografico dell’olpe Chigi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
4. Le iscrizioni in alfabeto non corinzio e la questione delle origini del pittore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
5. L’olpe Chigi e il contesto storico di Corinto alla metà del VII secolo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
6. Da Corinto all’Etruria Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
7. Conclusioni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
8. Summary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
9. Note e bibliografia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
10. Appendice. Opere attribuite al Pittore Chigi e alla sua “cerchia” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
11. Indici Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
12. Indice delle fonti iconografiche Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271

(Deutsch)

Language: Italian
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Classical Archaeologists, Classical Historians, and all those interested in ancient vase-painting
Pages
- Front matter: 42
- Main content: 273
Illustrations
- Other: 67 fig.
Keywords: Olpe Chigi; vase painting; Corinth; iconography

eBook

Published: October 29, 2013
ISBN: 9783110314212

Hardcover

Published: October 17, 2013
ISBN: 9783110314090