This is the second appointment of the three-year cycle created with the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Padua and important archaeological museums in the Veneto region. Edited by Monica Salvadori, Monica Baggio e Luca Zamparo, the exhibition Clay. Travel storiesremains open to the public until June 18.
The three-year course, now in its second appointment after Clay. Stories of vases, was born as part of the collaboration between the Directorate of Art, Culture and Historical Heritage di Intesa Sanpaolo and the Department of Cultural Heritage ofUniversity of Padua.
A project that intends to enhance the cultural heritage thanks to a profitable synergy between public and private institutions, enhancing the precious finds preserved in the territorial network of archaeological museums and the Greek and Magna Graecia ceramics in the collection Intesa Sanpaolo, made up of over five hundred finds produced between the sixth and third centuries. BC, from Ruvo di Puglia, now exhibited at the Gallerie d'Italia in Naples and represented in the Vicenza itinerary by a nucleus of prestigious works.
The exhibition allows you to admire artifacts from important archaeological museums in the Veneto region: the National Archaeological Museum of Adria and the National Archaeological Museum of Venice, the Civic Museum of Bassano del Grappa, the Museum of the Great Rivers of Rovigo and the Science Museum Archaeological and Art and the University Center for the Museums of the University of Padua.
The project was presented in Vicenza at the Gallerie d'Italia in the presence of Michele Coppola, Intesa Sanpaolo Executive Director of Art, Culture and Historic Heritage, the Rector of the University of Padua Daniela Mapelli, Monica Salvadori, Pro-rector curator of the exhibition together to Monica Baggio and Luca Zamparo, by Giulia Pelucchini representing Vincenzo Tinè for the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the provinces of Verona, Rovigo and Vicenza, by the Director General of the Veneto Museums Daniele Ferrara, and by the directors and conservatories of the museums lenders. In addition, Jacopo Bonetto, director of the Department of Cultural Heritage and Barbara Arfè, delegate for inclusion and disability at the University of Padua.
THEItalian Blind Union has actively collaborated with the accessibility project and with other associations and bodies involved in the inclusion issues.
Educational courses for schools
IN THE POTTER'S WORKSHOP
Thematic itinerary (45 min)
Workshop: making a clay artifact (45 min)
How is a vase born? The work of the workshop, from the conception of an ancient ceramic to its realization.
All school orders
FROM LAND TO SEA: A JAR ON THE GO
Thematic itinerary (60 min)
History of a vase: from its conception, through the manufacturing and cooking techniques, to the methods of transport and sale of ancient artifacts.
First and second grade secondary school
Free activity for schools with reservations required
Family Lab
BETWEEN LAND AND SEAS. TRAVELING POTS
Among shells and corals, on the bottom of the sea, important finds and objects of extraordinary value are hidden. In the company of "Marino the archaeologist" the traces of a distant era will be revealed, to discover the ancient peoples through the images and shapes of the vases which, over the centuries, have made a journey full of stories.
Activities for families proposed on Sundays from 10.30 to 16.30
(without reservation, activity included in the entrance ticket).
TRAVELING POTS. STORIES OF POTTERS, MYTHS AND SAILORS
An ancient ceramic artifact is the bearer of art, history and culture of our most distant past. Through the renewed exhibition itinerary dedicated to ancient ceramics, we will be able to understand all the details of the history of a vase: from its conception, through the construction and cooking techniques, to the methods of transport and sale of the artefacts.
Thematic itinerary proposed on Sundays at 16 pm
5 euros per person + entrance ticket with reservations required
The activity will start when a minimum of 5 participants register.
Meeting calendar
A series of meetings with the curators of the exhibition organized in collaboration with the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Padua, to explore the fascinating theme of how, over the centuries, ancient ceramics have reached, through the Mediterranean, populating apparently distant places such as the archaeological museums of the Veneto.
The journey of the vessels from Greece to the Adriatic routes
Monica Baggio
February 10, 17.30 am
Collections and collectors in Veneto: good practices
Luca Zamparo
February 17, 17.30 am
Journeys of myths
Monica Salvadori,
February 24, 17.30 am
