fbpx
Wikipedia

Arthur Dale Trendall

March 22, 2024

Arthur Dale Trendall, AC, CMG (28 March 1909 – 13 November 1995) was a New Zealand art historian and classical archaeologist whose work on identifying the work of individual artists on Greek ceramic vessels at Apulia and other sites earned him international prizes and a papal knighthood.

Sisyphus Painter Peleus and Thetis

Life edit

Educated at the University of Otago (1926–29) and the University of Cambridge (1931–33), Trendall was professionally associated with the University of Sydney and Australian National University. He was Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Master of University House at the latter institution.[1] From 1969 until his death he was Resident Fellow at La Trobe University in Melbourne.[2]

Wartime service edit

In January 1940, with the encouragement of the Australian Army, Trendall, together with some colleagues at the University of Sydney, began to study Japanese codes. The others were the mathematicians Thomas Gerald Room and Richard Lyons and the classicist Athanasius Treweek. In May 1941 Room and Treweek attended a meeting at the Victoria Barracks in Melbourne with the Director of Naval Intelligence of the Royal Australian Navy, several Australian Army intelligence officers and Eric Nave, an expert Japanese cryptographer with the Royal Australian Navy. As a result it was agreed that Room's group, with the agreement of the University of Sydney, would move in August 1941 to work under Nave at the Special Intelligence Bureau in Melbourne. After the outbreak of war they were working for FRUMEL (Fleet Radio Unit Melbourne), a joint American-Australian intelligence unit, but when Lieutenant Rudolph Fabian took over command of FRUMEL and particularly when, in October 1942, FRUMEL was placed under direct control of the US Navy, civilians such as the member of Room's group were found surplus to requirements and returned to their academic posts.[3][4]

Legacy edit

According to Oliver Taplin, Trendall "almost single-handedly ... imposed order on the more than 20.000 known red-figure vases from Sicily, South Italy, Campania and Paestum, allocating each one to an area of production and approximate date, and attributing them to individual painters or groups of painters".[5] Moreover, he was responsible for "superbly acute and well- informed observations on the subject-matter and interpretation of the vases, whether mythological, cultic, funerary, social, theatrical or artistic."[5]

Honours edit

In the New Years Honours of 1961, Trendall was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG), in recognition of his service as "Vice-Chancellor" of the Australian National University.[6]

On 20 July 1961 he was appointed Cavaliere Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana.[7]

In the Australia Day Honours of 1976, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia.[7]

In 1997 the Australian Academy of the Humanities, of which Prof. Trendall was a Foundation Fellow,[8] inaugurated the Trendall Lectures.[9] Some of those were published as printed booklets[10] and others were published online or in the Humanities Australia journal. The Trendall Lecture "alternates between an Australian and an international scholar with a research interest in classical studies"[11] and is delivered in conjunction with the conference of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies.

Selected works edit

  • Paestan Pottery: A Study of the Red-Figured Vases of Paestum (London: Macmillan, 1936)
  • Frühitaliotische Vasen (Bilder griechischer Vasen, Heft 12) (Leipzig: Verlag Heinrich Keller, 1938)
  • Vasi antichi dipinti del Vaticano: Vasi italioti ed etruschi a figure rosse (Città del Vaticano: 1953)
  • Phlyax Vases. 2nd ed. (London: University of London: Institute of Classical Studies, 1967) (Bulletin Supplements, 19)
  • The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily [2 volumes: Vol. 1: Text; Vol. 2: Indexes and Plates.] (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology) (Oxford: University Press, 1967)
  • with T. B. L. Webster: Illustrations of Greek Drama (London: Phaidon, 1971; New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971)
  • Early South Italian Vase-Painting. Revised 1973 (Forschungen zur antiken Keramik, Heft 12) (Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Phillip von Zabern, 1974)
  • with Alexander Cambitoglou: The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, 1. Early and Middle Apulian (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978)
  • with Alexander Cambitoglou: The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, 2. Late Apulian. Indexes (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982)
  • with Alexander Cambitoglou: The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, Indexes (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982). Contents: 1. Collections, 2. Concordance with CVA and other publications, 3. Mythological Representations, 4. General, 5. Vase-Painters and Groups. Also: a table of stylistic and chronological relations.
  • The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily. Third Supplement. Consolidated (Bulletin Supplements, 41) (University of London: Institute of Classical Studies, 1983)
  • with Alexander Cambitoglou: First Supplement to the Red-Figured Vases of Apulia (Bulletin Supplements, 42) (University of London: Institute of Classical Studies, 1983)
  • with Ian McPhee: Greek Red-Figured Fish-Plates (Beiheft zur Halbjahresschrift Antike Kunst, 14) (Basel: Vereinigung der Freunde Antiker Kunst c/o Archäologisches Seminar der Universität, 1987)
  • The Red-Figured Vases of Paestum (Rome: British School at Rome, 1987)
  • Red Figure Vases of South Italy and Sicily: A Handbook. London: Thames and Hudson 1989; German language edition: Rotfigurige Vasen aus Unteritalien und Sizilien: Ein Handbuch. (Kulturgeschichte der antiken Welt, Band 47) Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1991. ISBN 3-8053-1111-7
  • with Ian McPhee: "Addenda to 'Greek Red-figured fish-plates'". In: Antike Kunst 33 (1990) 31–51
  • with Alexander Cambitoglou: Second Supplement to the Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, 1–3 (University of Bulletin Supplements, 60) (University of London: Institute of Classical Studies, 1991–92)
  • Ian McPhee, ed.: Myth, Drama and Style in South Italian Vase-Painting: Selected Papers by A.D. Trendall. (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology and Literature, PB 182) (Uppsala: Åströms förlag, 2016)

Secondary literature edit

  • Ian McPhee, 'Arthur Dale Trendall 1909–1995. A Memoir', Proceedings of the British Academy, 97 (1998), 501–517. Reprinted in Myth, Drama and Style in South Italian Vase Painting, edited by Ian McPhee, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology PB 182 (Astrom Editions, 2016).
  • Alexander Cambitoglou (ed.), Studies in honour of Arthur Dale Trendall (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1979).
  • 'Arthur Dale Trendall. Bibliography 1934–1987', in Greek colonists and native populations, Proceedings of the First Australian Congress of Classical Archaeology, Sydney 9–14 July 1985 (Canberra 1990) 649–655.
  • The Times (London), 4. December 1995.
  • John Richard Green, Ian McPhee, '"Kein Wort von ihnen, schau und geh vorüber": Zum Tod von Arthur Dale Trendall', Antike Welt 27 (1996) 67–68.
  • Henri Metzger, 'Arthur Dale Trendall, 1909 – 1995', Revue archéologique 1996, 411–413.
  • L. Cozza Luzi, 'Arthur Dale Trendall, 1909–1995', Atti della Pontificia academia romana di Archeologia. Rendiconti 70 (1997–98) 321–322.

References edit

  1. ^ John Boardman (25 November 1995). "Obituary: Professor A. D. Trendall". The Independent.
  2. ^ Ian McPhee, Arthur Dale Trendall 1909–1995. A Memoir. Proceedings of the British Academy, 97 (1998), 501–517
  3. ^ Peter Kornicki, Eavesdropping on the Emperor: Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain's War with Japan (London: Hurst & Co., 2021), pp. 209-211, 216-7.
  4. ^ Peter Donovan, and John Mack, ‘Sydney University, T. G. Room and codebreaking in WW II’, Australian mathematical society gazette 29 (2002): 76-85, 141-8.
  5. ^ a b Oliver Taplin, Ian McPhee, Myth, Drama and Style in South Italian Vase-Painting: Selected Papers by A.D. Trendall. Studies in Mediterranean archaeology and literature, PB 182. Uppsala: Åströms Förlag, 2016. (review), brynmawr.edu. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
  6. ^ "It's an Honour: CMG". from the original on 2 December 2018. Retrieved 30 July 2009.
  7. ^ a b "It's an Honour: AC". from the original on 2 December 2018. Retrieved 30 July 2009.
  8. ^ Professor Amy Smith gives prestigious Trendall Lecture, reading.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  9. ^ Trendall Lecture, humanities.org.au. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  10. ^ Trendall lecture (entry), nla.gov.au. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  11. ^ Trendall Lectures 1997-2020, humanities.org.au. Retrieved 24 October 2022.

Further reading edit

External links edit

March 22, 2024
arthur, dale, trendall, march, 1909, november, 1995, zealand, historian, classical, archaeologist, whose, work, identifying, work, individual, artists, greek, ceramic, vessels, apulia, other, sites, earned, international, prizes, papal, knighthood, sisyphus, p. Arthur Dale Trendall AC CMG 28 March 1909 13 November 1995 was a New Zealand art historian and classical archaeologist whose work on identifying the work of individual artists on Greek ceramic vessels at Apulia and other sites earned him international prizes and a papal knighthood Sisyphus Painter Peleus and Thetis Contents 1 Life 2 Wartime service 3 Legacy 4 Honours 5 Selected works 6 Secondary literature 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksLife editEducated at the University of Otago 1926 29 and the University of Cambridge 1931 33 Trendall was professionally associated with the University of Sydney and Australian National University He was Deputy Vice Chancellor and Master of University House at the latter institution 1 From 1969 until his death he was Resident Fellow at La Trobe University in Melbourne 2 Wartime service editIn January 1940 with the encouragement of the Australian Army Trendall together with some colleagues at the University of Sydney began to study Japanese codes The others were the mathematicians Thomas Gerald Room and Richard Lyons and the classicist Athanasius Treweek In May 1941 Room and Treweek attended a meeting at the Victoria Barracks in Melbourne with the Director of Naval Intelligence of the Royal Australian Navy several Australian Army intelligence officers and Eric Nave an expert Japanese cryptographer with the Royal Australian Navy As a result it was agreed that Room s group with the agreement of the University of Sydney would move in August 1941 to work under Nave at the Special Intelligence Bureau in Melbourne After the outbreak of war they were working for FRUMEL Fleet Radio Unit Melbourne a joint American Australian intelligence unit but when Lieutenant Rudolph Fabian took over command of FRUMEL and particularly when in October 1942 FRUMEL was placed under direct control of the US Navy civilians such as the member of Room s group were found surplus to requirements and returned to their academic posts 3 4 Legacy editAccording to Oliver Taplin Trendall almost single handedly imposed order on the more than 20 000 known red figure vases from Sicily South Italy Campania and Paestum allocating each one to an area of production and approximate date and attributing them to individual painters or groups of painters 5 Moreover he was responsible for superbly acute and well informed observations on the subject matter and interpretation of the vases whether mythological cultic funerary social theatrical or artistic 5 Honours editIn the New Years Honours of 1961 Trendall was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George CMG in recognition of his service as Vice Chancellor of the Australian National University 6 On 20 July 1961 he was appointed Cavaliere Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana 7 In the Australia Day Honours of 1976 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia 7 In 1997 the Australian Academy of the Humanities of which Prof Trendall was a Foundation Fellow 8 inaugurated the Trendall Lectures 9 Some of those were published as printed booklets 10 and others were published online or in the Humanities Australia journal The Trendall Lecture alternates between an Australian and an international scholar with a research interest in classical studies 11 and is delivered in conjunction with the conference of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies Selected works editPaestan Pottery A Study of the Red Figured Vases of Paestum London Macmillan 1936 Fruhitaliotische Vasen Bilder griechischer Vasen Heft 12 Leipzig Verlag Heinrich Keller 1938 Vasi antichi dipinti del Vaticano Vasi italioti ed etruschi a figure rosse Citta del Vaticano 1953 Phlyax Vases 2nd ed London University of London Institute of Classical Studies 1967 Bulletin Supplements 19 The Red Figured Vases of Lucania Campania and Sicily 2 volumes Vol 1 Text Vol 2 Indexes and Plates Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology Oxford University Press 1967 with T B L Webster Illustrations of Greek Drama London Phaidon 1971 New York Praeger Publishers 1971 Early South Italian Vase Painting Revised 1973 Forschungen zur antiken Keramik Heft 12 Mainz am Rhein Verlag Phillip von Zabern 1974 with Alexander Cambitoglou The Red Figured Vases of Apulia 1 Early and Middle Apulian Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology Oxford Clarendon Press 1978 with Alexander Cambitoglou The Red Figured Vases of Apulia 2 Late Apulian Indexes Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology Oxford Clarendon Press 1982 with Alexander Cambitoglou The Red Figured Vases of Apulia Indexes Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology Oxford Clarendon Press 1982 Contents 1 Collections 2 Concordance with CVA and other publications 3 Mythological Representations 4 General 5 Vase Painters and Groups Also a table of stylistic and chronological relations The Red Figured Vases of Lucania Campania and Sicily Third Supplement Consolidated Bulletin Supplements 41 University of London Institute of Classical Studies 1983 with Alexander Cambitoglou First Supplement to the Red Figured Vases of Apulia Bulletin Supplements 42 University of London Institute of Classical Studies 1983 with Ian McPhee Greek Red Figured Fish Plates Beiheft zur Halbjahresschrift Antike Kunst 14 Basel Vereinigung der Freunde Antiker Kunst c o Archaologisches Seminar der Universitat 1987 The Red Figured Vases of Paestum Rome British School at Rome 1987 Red Figure Vases of South Italy and Sicily A Handbook London Thames and Hudson 1989 German language edition Rotfigurige Vasen aus Unteritalien und Sizilien Ein Handbuch Kulturgeschichte der antiken Welt Band 47 Mainz am Rhein Philipp von Zabern 1991 ISBN 3 8053 1111 7 with Ian McPhee Addenda to Greek Red figured fish plates In Antike Kunst 33 1990 31 51 with Alexander Cambitoglou Second Supplement to the Red Figured Vases of Apulia 1 3 University of Bulletin Supplements 60 University of London Institute of Classical Studies 1991 92 Ian McPhee ed Myth Drama and Style in South Italian Vase Painting Selected Papers by A D Trendall Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology and Literature PB 182 Uppsala Astroms forlag 2016 Secondary literature editIan McPhee Arthur Dale Trendall 1909 1995 A Memoir Proceedings of the British Academy 97 1998 501 517 Reprinted in Myth Drama and Style in South Italian Vase Painting edited by Ian McPhee Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology PB 182 Astrom Editions 2016 Alexander Cambitoglou ed Studies in honour of Arthur Dale Trendall Sydney Sydney University Press 1979 Arthur Dale Trendall Bibliography 1934 1987 in Greek colonists and native populations Proceedings of the First Australian Congress of Classical Archaeology Sydney 9 14 July 1985 Canberra 1990 649 655 The Times London 4 December 1995 John Richard Green Ian McPhee Kein Wort von ihnen schau und geh voruber Zum Tod von Arthur Dale Trendall Antike Welt 27 1996 67 68 Henri Metzger Arthur Dale Trendall 1909 1995 Revue archeologique 1996 411 413 L Cozza Luzi Arthur Dale Trendall 1909 1995 Atti della Pontificia academia romana di Archeologia Rendiconti 70 1997 98 321 322 References edit John Boardman 25 November 1995 Obituary Professor A D Trendall The Independent Ian McPhee Arthur Dale Trendall 1909 1995 A Memoir Proceedings of the British Academy 97 1998 501 517 Peter Kornicki Eavesdropping on the Emperor Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain s War with Japan London Hurst amp Co 2021 pp 209 211 216 7 Peter Donovan and John Mack Sydney University T G Room and codebreaking in WW II Australian mathematical society gazette 29 2002 76 85 141 8 a b Oliver Taplin Ian McPhee Myth Drama and Style in South Italian Vase Painting Selected Papers by A D Trendall Studies in Mediterranean archaeology and literature PB 182 Uppsala Astroms Forlag 2016 review brynmawr edu Retrieved 25 October 2022 It s an Honour CMG Archived from the original on 2 December 2018 Retrieved 30 July 2009 a b It s an Honour AC Archived from the original on 2 December 2018 Retrieved 30 July 2009 Professor Amy Smith gives prestigious Trendall Lecture reading ac uk Retrieved 24 October 2022 Trendall Lecture humanities org au Retrieved 24 October 2022 Trendall lecture entry nla gov au Retrieved 24 October 2022 Trendall Lectures 1997 2020 humanities org au Retrieved 24 October 2022 Further reading editArthur Cambitoglou n d Arthur Dale Trendall 1909 1995 at Australian Academy of the HumanitiesExternal links editA D Trendall Research Centre for Ancient Mediterranean Studies at La Trobe University Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Arthur Dale Trendall amp oldid 1212969156, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

article

, read, download, free, free download, mp3, video, mp4, 3gp, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, picture, music, song, movie, book, game, games.