LVII International Ceramics Conference – 8, 9 November 2024

We look forward to seeing you at the LVII International Ceramics Conference!

‘A LONG MIDDLE AGES. PERSISTENCE AND CONTINUITY OVER THE CENTURIES OF TECHNIQUES, MORPHOLOGIES AND DECORATIONS’.

The Conference will be held in Savona at the City and Archaeological Museum on 8-9 November 2024.

Programme:

Friday 8 NOVEMBER 9.30 a.m.

Registration of participants
Welcome by the Authorities and introduction to the Conference
THEMED INTERVENTIONS

MARCO MILANESE, The Long Middle Ages and Post-Medieval Archaeology
ANTONINO MEO, Tradition and innovation in Pisan ceramic production between the 9th and 12th centuries
UMBERTO BATTAGLIA, The Byzantine inheritance of glazed slip in Calabria: persistence and continuity of techniques and morphologies in Seminara ceramics
ALBERTO GARCÌA PORRAS, MIGUEL BUSTO ZAPICO, Continuidad del mito o ruptura tecnológica. Un estudio comparativo entre las cerámicas nazaríes y de Fajalauza granadinas

DISCUSSION

AFTERNOON SESSION 2.30 P.M.

THEMATIC INTERVENTIONS
RITA LAVAGNA, CARLO VARALDO, Savona’s ceramics production in the sign of continuity.
ELISA PRUNO, CHIARA MOLDUCCI, BENEDETTA PACINI, The CAT brand ceramics of Impruneta (Florence): a bridge between the Middle Ages and the present.
ELISA PRUNO, The production of ceramics in the Zi-zia Factory (Jordan), between proof and denial of a possible continuity of production.
DANILO BRUNO, Forms of mutuality among the workers of the ceramic art in the long Middle Ages. A research hypothesis.
RICCARDO VIGANÒ, Indino versus Indino. Lucugnano and the use of traditional kilns of the Salento type in a court case from 1930.
DIEGO CARBONE, La tradizione del Presepe dalla co-roplastica tardomedievale alla scuola savonese fra età moderna e contemporanea.
CONTRIBUTIONS ON LIGURIAN MAJOLICA
CARMEN RAVANELLI, Sacred and profane themes in some Savona historiati (Part I).
DISCUSSION

MEETING OF THE CENTRE’S MEMBERS 6.00 P.M.

SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER 9.30 A.M.

THEMATIC INTERVENTIONS
MARIA TERESA FOSCOLO, La ceramica dipinta a ‘bande rosse’ dal Castello di Sannicandro di Bari (Ba-Puglia). Stories of continuity and transformation between the 7th and 11th centuries.
FREE-THEME INTERVENTIONS
FAUSTO BERTI, The Ceramic Coats of Arms of the Public Palaces of Tuscany: A First Census.
CRISTINA MENGHINI, Circulation, transmission and technological know-how. The case of the mould decorations of Abbadia Isola (Monteriggioni, SI).
MARINO MARINI, A plate from the Fontana workshop in Urbino dated 1563.
ALFONSO FORGIONE, ROBERTO CAMPANELLA, Engobed and Engraved Ceramics between the 6th and 10th Centuries in Inner Abruzzo: Some Considerations on Diffusion and Trade from the Investigations at Campo Santa Maria di Amiternum.
LUIGI DI COSMO, Ceramics from the Monastery Church of S. Benedetto de Iumento Albo in Civitanova del Sannio (IS).
DISCUSSION
AFTERNOON SESSION 2.30 P.M.
SALVINA FIORILLA, New data on the protomaiolica from Syracuse.
CARLA ALEO NERO, GIORGIA MOSCATO, RITA VASSALLO, Palermo, archaeological investigations in the Spasimo monumental complex.
RICCARDO VIGANÒ, Political allegories in the productions of the Bonsegna workshops in Nardò during the ‘War of the Canopy’ (1688 – 1692).
DISCUSSION

CLOSING OF THE LVII INTERNATIONAL CERAMICS CONFERENCE