[MGSA-L] Princeton Hellenic Studies Lecture: February 15, 2011

[Dimitri H. Gondicas]

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Program in Hellenic Studies

Lecture


Artisanal Production

in Byzantine Thessaloniki

Anastasios Antonaras
Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki


This talk will focus on Byzantine artisans (millers, limekilners, potters, glassworkers, stone carvers, sculptors, mosaicists, metal smiths, jewelers, painters, wood and bone carvers, tanners, weavers, dyers, gold embroiderers, candle-makers and scribes) who were active in Thessaloniki from the fourth to the fifteenth century. Tracing artisanal production in this 2300-year old city is usually based on movable archaeological finds. Only a few workshops, their furnaces or water reservoirs, could actually be located archaeologically.  Finally, valuable information on these professions has been accessed through written sources: inscriptions, historiographical, hagiographical, and legal texts, acta of the monasteries of Mount Athos, all of which directly or indirectly illuminate aspects of private and professional life of the citizens of Thessaloniki.



Anastasios Antonaras graduated from the Archaeology Department of the University of Belgrade (1989), specializing in medieval art and archaeology. He holds an M.A. degree in Museum Studies from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2004). His doctoral dissertation (University of Ioannina, 2006) focused on the production and use of glass vessels in Thessaloniki from the 1st century B.C. to the 6th century A.D. It was published as Roman and Early Christian Glassworking: Vessels from Thessaloniki and its Region (Athens: 2009), and received an award of the Academy of Athens. Anastasios Antonaras is also the co-author of Glassworking, Ancient and Medieval: Terminology, technology and typology; A Greek-English-English-Greek Dictionary (Thessaloniki, 2008). He has published extensively on glass objects, embroideries and jewelry of the late Roman and Byzantine periods. He is currently working on the catalogue of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine glass objects at the Princeton University Art Museum.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011
6:00 p.m.
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103
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