The appearance of a link on this page does not represent endorsement of that site or any materials or links that appear therein by the author, nor by the University or any of its affiliates.

Archives

For archived messages since November 2000 and all other matters relating to the iconographie mailing list, please visit the web site http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iconographie/

There is a list of other web sites relating to Ancient Art and Archaeology at http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~gabby/iconographie/artarch/

List introduction

The list Iconographie is hosted by Yahoo Groups. The list-owner is Gabriel Bodard and the list is co-administrated by Nina Strawczynski .

When you subscribe you will receive an automated message explaining the operation of the Yahoo Groups system. As a subscriber to the list you may send mail to all other subscribers by addressing your message to < >. Any problems should be brought to the attention of the list owners.

The list Iconographie has been set up to facilitate international discussion in the field of ancient Greek art and iconography. This topic can be defined broadly, but if list discussions veer too far from the brief the owners may on occasion intervene to request that discussion be taken off-list. On the other hand, no question within the list-topic is too stupid or insignificant to be sent to the list (perhaps including requests for other members to examine details on an artefact in their home institution). We hope to make the list available to students of all levels and interested laymen, as well as the most erudite of scholars.

This list is not meant for the discussion of mediaeval or modern Orthodox Christian icons, unless ancient art is particularly relevant to the iconography of an icon. This list may not be used to circulate or advertise financial services or items for sale, including antiquities and reproductions of ancient art.

It is expected that all subscribers will adhere to the rules of Netiquette, good manners and consideration for others: in general it is best not to write to the list if you are simply expressing agreement and not adding anything to the discussion. Please identify yourself with a signature at the end of your mail. The list is currently unmoderated: all subscribers may post directly to the whole group. If the list becomes the target of abuse it may become moderated in the future.

The default languages of the list will be English and French, but postings in Italian, German, Spanish, Greek and other modern languages (within the limits of email fonts) are also welcome.

It is to be expected that the discussion of art and iconography will often require the sharing of images. Nonetheless, please do not send GIF or JPEG files as attachments to the whole list (in any case attachments will be rejected). If necessary, send attachments to individual email addresses, or even better, put the image on a web page and send the http address to the list (I can help with this if desired).

Enjoy the discussions!

Gabriel Bodard

Introduction à la liste

La liste de discussion iconographie est hebergée sur le serveur de Yahoo Groups. Le propriétaire de la liste est Gabriel Bodard et la liste est co-administrée par Nina Strawczynski .

Une fois inscrit, vous recevrez un message automatique expliquant l'opération du logiciel de Yahoo Groups. En étant inscrit a cette liste, vous pouvez envoyer du courrier à tous les autres abonnés en adressant votre message à < >. Pour tout problème, il faut s'adresser aux propriétaires de la liste.

Cette liste Iconographie a été mise en place pour faciliter la discussion au niveau international dans le domaine de l'art grec antique et de l'iconographie. Le sujet peut être défini d'une manière vaste, mais si certaines discussions s'écartent trop de ce qui a été prévu, les propriétaires se réservent le droit d'intervenir afin de demander que ces discussions se fassent hors liste. Cependant, à l'intérieur du domaine défini, aucune question n'est considerée comme trop stupide ou insignifiante pour être envoyée sur la liste. On pourra également par exemple demander à d'autres membres certains détails sur des objets se trouvant dans leur ville ou institution. Nous espérons que cette liste sera utile aux étudiants de tous niveaux et aux profanes, aussi bien qu'aux savants les plus érudits.

On attend des membres qu'ils adhèrent aux règles de Netiquette, de bonnes manières et du respect pour les autres: mieux vaut généralement s'abstenir d'écrire à la liste si c'est uniquement pour manifester son accord, sans faire d'apport à la discussion. Veuillez s.v.p. vous identifier par une signature en fin de courrier. Cette liste n'est pas modérée pour l'instant: tout membre peut faire un envoi directement à toute la liste (sans contrôle préalable des administrateurs). En cas d'abus, la liste deviendra modérée.

Les langues utilisées par défault dans la liste sont l'anglais et le français. Mais des courriers en italien, allemand et grec (dans la limite des polices de email) sont également les bienvenus.

La discussion sur l'art et l'iconographie peut souvent entraîner le partage d'images. N'envoyez pas cependant des fichiers GIF ou JPEG en fichier joint à toute la liste. D'ailleurs les fichiers seront rejetés. Si cela se révèle nécessaire, envoyez des fichiers joints à des adresses email individuelles, ou mieux: mettez l'image sur une page web (site), et envoyez l'adresse http à la liste.

Bonnes discussions!

Nina Strawczynski

Subscription information

To subscribe to or unsubscibe from the iconographie list, write to one of the following addresses, or fill in the form below:

• Subscribe: iconographie-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
• Unsubscribe: iconographie-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

If you have any problems contact:

List owner: iconographie-owner@yahoogroups.com

You can modify your subscription information on the web by visiting: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iconographie/

FAQ and Bibliography

The FAQ (Frequestly Asked Questions) file is under construction. We shall begin with an introductory bibliography. Please send any suggestions to the address below or, even better, join the iconographie list and take part in the discussion there.

Expansion of Acronyms

See also the abbreviations listing in the American Journal of Archaeology, currently online at http://www.ajaonline.org/shared/s_info_contrib_7.html

ABV

J. D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971 (1956).

ARV

J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters (2nd ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.

see also Beazley, Paralipomena: additions to ABV and to ARV Oxford, 1971.

and T. H. Carpenter, Beazley Addenda (2d ed.), Oxford 1989

ABL

C. H. E. Haspels, Attic Black-figured Lekythoi, Paris: de Boccard, 1936.

CVA

Union Academique Internationale, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Paris: Champion, 1923-.

LIMC

Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (16 vols), Zurich: Artemis, 1981-. Edited by Hans Christoph Ackermann, Jean-Robert Gisler, Lilly Kahil.

RE

Pauly/Wissowa, Realencyclopädie der klassischen Alterthumswissenschaft, Metzler, 1894-1980 (first ed. 1839)

Roscher

Roscher, Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie, Leipzig/Berlin, 1884-1937 (a weighty mythological lexicon in German, containing much iconographical material, including figures and chronology

Preliminary Bibliography

This bibliography is only a suggestion of preliminary readings. It makes no claims to comprehensiveness, nor implies that these are the best works available on the subject. It should be taken as a starting point for further exploration of the subject. There is an important bibliography of Greek iconography in Beth Cohen ed., Not the Classical Ideal: Athens and the construction of the other, Leiden-Boston-Köln, 2000, pp. 487-521.

See also this list of web sites relating to Ancient Art and Archaeology at http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~gabby/iconographie/artarch/

Bronze Age to Geometric

Betancourt, Philip P, The History of Minoan Pottery, Princeton University Press, 1985

This has been dubbed the bible of Minoan pottery.

Coldstream, J.N., Geometric Greece, Methuen & Co. Press: Cambridge, 1977.

good information about pottery and the arts during the Dark and Geometric Ages. Especially helpful for non-pottery sources of iconography, such as fibulae

Desborough, Vincent, The Last Mycenaeans and their Successors: an archaeological survey, c. 1200-c. 1000 B.C, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964

Hurwit, Jeffrey, The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100-480 B.C., Cornell University Press, 1992 (4th printing).

a good source for early Greek art, before and leading up to the Classical Age.

Sara Immerwahr, Aegean Painting in the Bronze Age, Univ. Park and London, 1990

Higgins, Reynold, Minoan And Mycenaean Art revised ed., Thames & Hudson, 1989

Hood, Sinclair, The Arts in Prehistoric Greece The Pelican History of Art, 1990

Helene J. Kantor, Plant Ornament, its Origin and Development in the Ancient Near East, Ph.D. thesis, Chicago, Illinois, 1945

only published on the world-wide web at http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/HJK/HJKIntro.html, but a 'Standardwerk' in Aegean Bronze Age iconography.

Sarah Morris, The Black and White Style: Athens and Aigina in the Orientalizing Period, Yale Classical Monographs 6, 1984.

Sarah Morris, Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art, Princeton University Press, 1992.

The Mycenaean World: Five Centuries of Early Greek Culture 1600-1100 BC., Catalogue from the National Museum at Athens.

Robertson, Martin, A Shorter History of Greek Art, Cambridge University Press, 1989

a good introduction to Greek and Cretan Bronze Age art, with excellent pictures

Greek Vases

J.D.Beazley, Etruscan Vase-painting, Oxford, 1947

J.D.Beazley, The Development of Attic Black-Figure, London, 1951

Buitron-Oliver D. M, Douris. A master-painter of Athenian red-figured vases (Kerameus 9), Mainz, 1995.

Cook R. M., Greek Painted Pottery, London, 1997 (3e ed.)

Lissarrague F., Vases grecs, les Athéniens et leurs images, Paris 1999 (trans. as Greek Vases: The Athenians and Their Images, 2001.

John H. Oakley, William D. E. Coulson & Olga Palagia (edd.), International Conference on Athenian Potters and Painters, Oxbow Books, 1997.

John H. Oakley, The Phiale Painter, Mainz, 1990

John H. Oakley, The Achilles Painter, Mainz/Rhein, 1997

Simon E., Hirmer M. , Die griechieschen Vasen, Munich, 1981 (2e ed.)

Sparkes B. , Greek Pottery, an Introduction, Manchester, 1991

Sparkes B. , The Red and The Black,

Arias P. E., Hirmer M., Schefton B. , Le vase grec, Paris, 1962

A History of Greek Vase Painting

Rasmussen T., Spivey N. , Looking at Greek Vases, Cambridge, 1991.

Sculpture

John Boardman, Greek Sculpture: the classical period, Thames & Hudson, 1985

Nigel Spivey, Understanding Greek sculpture: ancient meanings, modern readings, London: Thames and Hudson, 1996.

Olga Palagia & J. J. Pollitt (edd.), Personal styles in Greek sculpture, (=YCS 30), Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Olga Palagia & William D. E. Coulson (edd.), Regional schools in Hellenistic sculpture: an International Conference held at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Oxbow Books, 1998.

Iconography

La revue Metis, V, 1990, Autour de l'image, traite de l'iconographie des vases

Ahlberg G., Prothesis and Ekphora in Greek Geometric Art, Göteborg, 1971.

Bazant J. Les citoyens sur les vases athéniens, Prague, 1985

Bérard C. et alii ed., La cité des images, Religion et société en Grèce antique, (existe en anglais), (Paris-Lausanne, 1984) + Images et société en Grèce ancienne (colloque), Lausanne 1987

John Boardman, Greek Art, Thames & Hudson, 1985 [1964]

good (and oft re-edited) beginners' guide in the attractive Thames & Hudson world art series

Böhr E., Der Schaukelmaler (Kerameus 4), Mainz, 1982

Brommer F., Herakles, die zwölf Taten des Helden in antiker Kunst und Literatur, Köln, 1953

Brommer F., Herakles II :die unkanonische Taten,

Brommer F., Denkmälerlisten zur griechischen Heldensagen, Marburg, 1971-6.

Brommer F., Theseus, Die Taten des griechischen Helden in der antiken Kunst und Literatur, Darmstadt, 1982.

Brommer F., Odysseus, die Taten und Leiden des Helden in antiker Kunst und Literatur, Darmstadt, 1983

Buitron D. M. et alii (edd.), The Odyssey and Ancient Art, an epic in word and image, New York, 1992.

Burow J., Der Antimenesmaler (Kerameus 7), Mainz, 1987.

Carpenter, T.H., Dionysian imagery in archaic greek art, its development in black-figure vase painting, Oxford, 1986.

Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece, London 1991.

Carpenter, T.H., Dionysiac Imagery in Fifth Century Athens, Oxford, 1997.

R.Hampe-E.Simon, Griechische Sagen in der fruehen etruskischen Kunst, Mainz 1964

Himmelmann N., Reading Greek Art (W. Child ed.), Princeton, 1998

Kunisch N., Makron (Kerameus 10) Mainz, 1997

Kurtz, D. C., J. Boardman, Greek Burial Customs, Ithaca, 1971.

Lezzi-Hafter A., Der Eretria-Maler (Kerameus 6), Mainz, 1988

Lezzi-Hafter A., Der Shuwalow-Maler (Kerameus 2), 1976.

Lissarrague F. & Thélamon F., Image et céramique grecque (Colloque Rouen), Rouen, 1983

Lissarrague F., Un flot d'images (banquet), Paris, 1987 (+ existe en anglais)

Lissarrague F., L'autre guerrier, Paris, 1990.

Mommsen H., Exekias I (Kerameus 11), Mainz, 1997

Moraw S., Die Mänade in der Vasenmalerei des 6. Und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Mainz, 1998

Moret J.-M., L'Ilioupersis dans la céramique italiote. Les mythes et leur expression figurée au IVe siècle, Genève-Rome, 1975 + Œdipe, la Sphinx et les Thébains. Essai de mythologie iconographique, Rome-Genève, 1984

John H. Oakley & R. H. Sinos, The Wedding in Ancient Athens, Wisconsin, 1993

E. D. Reeder (ed.), Pandora, Baltimore & Princeton, 1995.

beautifully illustrated catalogue of the 1994 museum exhibition 'Pandora's Box', as well as a huge number of images with commentary, there are many essays from experts in the field on issues relating to iconography and women in ancient Greece

Robertson, Martin, The Art of Vase-Painting in Clasical Athens, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992.

K.Schefold, Myth and Legend in Early Greek Art, London, 1966 (Germany 1964)

K.Schefold, Gods and Heroes in Late Archaic Greek Art, Cambridge, 1992 (Germany 1978)

K.Schefold, Die Gottersage in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst, Munich, 1981

K.Schefold,- F.Jung, Die Urkönige, Perseus, Bellerophon, Herakles und Theseus in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst, Munich, 1988

K.Schefold, -F.Jung, Die Sagen von der Argonauten, Theben und Troia in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst, Munich, 1989

Shapiro, H.A., 'The iconography of Mourning in Athenian Art' AJA 95, 1991

Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, 600-400 BC, Akanthus, 1993

Shapiro, H.A., Myth into Art. Poet and Painter in Classical Greece, Routledge, 1994

Anthony Snodgrass, Homer and the Artists: text and picture in early Greek art, Cambridge, 1998

an analysis of Homeric themes in geometric and archaic Greek art which leads to the conclusion that artists showed a good deal of independance from any canonical literary source of myth

Sourvinou-Inwood, Christiane, Studies in girls transitions : aspects of the arkteia and age representation in Attic iconography, Athens, 1988.

Sourvinou-Inwood, Christiane, "Reading" Greek culture: texts and images, rituals and myths, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.

Nigel Spivey, Greek Art, London, 1997

Andrew Stewart, Art Desire and the Body in Ancient Greece, Cambridge University Press, 1997

Van Straten F. T., Hiera Kala, Images of Animal Sacrifice in Archaic and Classical Greece, Leiden-New York-Cologne, 1995

Emily Vermeule, Aspects of death in early Greek art and poetry, University of California, 1979.

J.M.Woodward, Perseus A Study in Greek Art and Legend, Cambridge, 1937

The URI of this page is: http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~gabby/iconographie/