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Vases from the Gruppo di Vanth: Analysis of the Chemical Composition of Pigments and the Symbolism of their Colours
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| Rok publikování | 2025 |
| Druh | Další prezentace na konferencích |
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| Popis | A group of red-figure vases from Orvieto, the s-c. Gruppo di Vanth, is dated to ca. 320–300 BC and contains approximately 12 vases. They are stored in museums in Orvieto, Chiusi and Palermo, but most of them are not on display. A brief description of some of them was given by Beazley (1947), some of them have been studied in more depth from an iconographic point of view (eg Dragoni 2006), but the whole group has never been systematically studied and published and that is the main goal of the authors. The contribution will mainly focus on their "materiality", which is the technology of applying pigments after firing, as some of them have red and blue pigments on the handles, a rather unique technique. Furthermore, the paper will include chemical composition (pXRF) of the pigments, fabrics and black gloss analysis to determine whether the vases, attributed to this group, were produced by the same workshop, possibly in Orvieto. Therefore, to determine the group's workshop not only on a stylistic but also on a scientific basis, it will be analyzed other vases produced in Orvieto. In addition, the contribution will present a reconstruction of the original appearance of the unpreserved parts of some vases. Hence, a part of the project is experimental: the ancient technologies will be reproduced aiming to reconstruct amphora No. 2645, which is quite known in terms of iconography, but no one has ever deeply studied its "materiality" and thus its original overall form, or how it was created and painted. The frieze depicts a journey to the underworld and the paper will also deal with the symbolism of the colours of the pigments and the plastic decoration of the handles and their relationship to the scene on the frieze. |