Abstract

The voices of pottery workers across the British Isles during the heyday of the taste for classically themed ceramics are almost silent to us, since so few left memoirs or diaries. But other sources cumulatively build up a picture of skilled male, female, and child workers familiar with multifarious ancient artefacts and books visually reproducing them. At Etruria and Herculaneum, workers were encouraged to see themselves as participants in the rebirth of the ancient ceramic arts; they were trained in painstaking reproduction of details not only from ancient vases but from ancient gems, intaglios, ivories, coins, bas-reliefs, frescoes, friezes, statues, and sarcophagi. They were familiar with the stories of a substantial number of ancient mythical and historical figures, and the different aesthetic conventions of classical Athenian, Hellenistic, and Roman art. Some were even able to study antiquity at institutions of adult education, and had access to well-stocked workers’ libraries.

中文翻译：

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陶艺工作者对古典艺术和文明了解多少？

摘要

在极度古典主题的陶瓷品味的鼎盛时期，整个不列颠群岛的陶器工人的声音对我们几乎是沉默的，因为留下的回忆录或日记很少。但是其他来源也累积了熟练的男性，女性和童工的照片，这些工人熟悉各种各样的古代手工艺品，并通过视觉方式再现了这些手工艺品。在伊特鲁里亚（Etruria）和赫库兰尼姆（Herculaneum），鼓励工人将自己视为古代陶艺复兴的参与者。他们经过精心训练，不仅从古老的花瓶中，而且从古老的宝石，凹版印刷，象牙，硬币，浅浮雕，壁画，壁饰，雕像和石棺中复制细节。他们熟悉许多古代神话和历史人物的故事，以及古典雅典，希腊文化，和罗马艺术。有些甚至能够在成人教育机构学习古代知识，并可以使用存货充足的工人图书馆。