Amy C. Smith | |
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| Alma mater | Dartmouth College, Yale University |
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| Discipline | Classical archaeology |
| Institutions | Tufts University,Boston College,Massachusetts College of Art,University of Reading |
Amy C. Smith is the current Curator of the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology and Professor of Classical Archaeology at Reading University. [1] She is known for her work on iconography,the history of collections,and digital museology.
Smith received her BA from Dartmouth College and her MA,MPhil,and PhD (1997) from Yale University,all in classical archaeology. [2] Her doctoral thesis was on the topic of Greek personification and this work was published as a monograph in 2011. [3]
Smith taught at Tufts University,Boston College,and Massachusetts College of Art and worked at the Yale University Art Gallery before moving to the University of Reading. [1] At Reading,Smith headed the redevelopment of the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology in 2004-05 and has worked on the university's collection of vases publishing the 23rd British fascicule of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum project in 2007. [4] [5] Her work on iconography has included research on the depiction of Aphrodite and personifications in Greek art. [6]
Smith's current work centres on the 2017/18 anniversary of Johann Joachim Winckelmann. She is a member of the Winckelmann-Gesellschaft's International Committee focusing on events to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Winckelmann's birth. [7] Smith is a co-organiser of a series of conferences to mark the anniversary and is also the co-curator (with Katherine Harloe) of the exhibition Winckelmann in Italy:Curiosity and connoisseurship in the 18th-century gentleman's study at Christ Church Upper Library from 29 June to 26 October 2018. [8]
Creator (with Brian Fuchs) of the Virtual Lightbox for Museums and Archives. [9] [10]
Founding member in 2011 of the Pottery in Context Research Network (ICS,London). [1] [11]
Member of the Digital Classics Advisory Committee,2016-18 (ICS,London). [12]
Founding member of the International Network of Classical Archaeology University Collections. [1]
Research associate of the Beazley Archive,University of Oxford. [13]
Member of the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens,2015–16;excavated at their excavations in Greece (the Athenian Agora and Corinth) and Spain (Pollentia). [14]
Member of the advisory board of the Institute in Ancient Itineraries:The Digital Lives of Art History based at King's College,London. [15]
2016 Gertrude Smith Visiting Professor,American School of Classical Studies at Athens. [16] [17]
Smith was a 2017/2018 visiting research fellow at the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University [18] in Canberra and was invited to give the 2017 Trendall Lecture at La Trobe University in Melbourne entitled 1766 and All That! Winckelmann and the Study of Greek Vases. [19] [20]
The Nicholson Museum was an archaeological museum at the University of Sydney home to the Nicholson Collection,the largest collection of antiquities in both Australia and the Southern Hemisphere. Founded in 1860,the collection spans the ancient world with primary collection areas including ancient Egypt,Greece,Italy,Cyprus,and the Near East. The museum closed permanently in February 2020,and the Nicholson Collection is now housed in the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney,open from November 2020. The museum was located in the main quadrangle of the University.
Pottery,due to its relative durability,comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient Greece,and since there is so much of it,it has exerted a disproportionately large influence on our understanding of Greek society. The shards of pots discarded or buried in the 1st millennium BC are still the best guide available to understand the customary life and mind of the ancient Greeks. There were several vessels produced locally for everyday and kitchen use,yet finer pottery from regions such as Attica was imported by other civilizations throughout the Mediterranean,such as the Etruscans in Italy. There were a multitude of specific regional varieties,such as the South Italian ancient Greek pottery.
A lekythos is a type of ancient Greek vessel used for storing oil,especially olive oil. It has a narrow body and one handle attached to the neck of the vessel,and is thus a narrow type of jug,with no pouring lip;the oinochoe is more like a modern jug. In the "shoulder" and "cylindrical" types which became the most common,especially the latter,the sides of the body are usually vertical by the shoulder,and there is then a sharp change of direction as the neck curves in;the base and lip are normally prominent and flared. However,there are a number of varieties,and the word seems to have been used even more widely in ancient times than by modern archeologists. They are normally in pottery,but there are also carved stone examples.
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum is an international research project for documentation of ancient ceramics. Its original ideal target content:any ceramic from any ancient location during any archaeological period,proved impossible of realization and was soon restricted to specific times and periods. As the project expanded from an original six nations:England,Belgium,Denmark,France,the Netherlands,and Italy,to include the current 28,the topic specializations of each country were left up to the commission for that country. The French commission,serves in an advisory position.
Edmond François Paul Pottier was an art historian and archaeologist who was instrumental in establishing the Corpus vasorum antiquorum. He was a pioneering scholar in the study of Ancient Greek pottery.
The Eurymedon vase is an Attic red-figure oinochoe,a wine jug attributed to the circle of the Triptolemos Painter made ca. 460 BC,which is now in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (1981.173) in Hamburg,Germany. It depicts two figures;a bearded man,naked except for a mantle,holding his erection in his right hand and reaching forward with his left,while the second figure in the traditional dress of an Oriental archer bends forward at the hips and twists his upper body to face the viewer while holding his hands open-palmed up before him,level with his head. Between these figures is an inscription that reads εύρυμέδονειμ[í] κυβα[---] έστεκα,restored by Schauenburg as "I am Eurymedon,I stand bent forward". This vase is a frequently-cited source suggestive of popular Greek attitudes during the Classical period to same-sex relations,gender roles,and Greco-Persian relations.
Robert Manuel Cook was a classical scholar and classical archaeologist from England with expertise in Greek painted vases. He was Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge,the author of several academic texts and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1974,having been made a Fellow of the German Archaeological Institute in 1953.
Charles Martin Robertson,known as Martin Robertson,was a British classical scholar and poet. He specialised in the art and archaeology of Ancient Greece,and was best known for his 1975 publication,A History of Greek Art.
Percy Neville Ure M.A. was the University of Reading's first Professor of Classics (1911–1946) and the founder of the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology at Reading. His wife and former pupil at Reading,Annie Ure (1893–1976),was the museum's first Curator from 1922 until her death. The Ures were experts on Greek and Egyptian antiquities,and particularly Greek ceramics. With Ronald M. Burrows,they undertook important excavations at Rhitsona in Boeotia,Greece.
Richard Theodore Neer is William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in Art History,Cinema &Media Studies and the College,and an affiliate of the Department of Classics,at the University of Chicago. Neer is also Executive Editor of Critical Inquiry.
Victoria Sabetai is a member of the Research Centre for Antiquity at the Academy of Athens where she is principally involved with research for the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum,a project aiming to publish ancient Greek pottery in museums and private collections.
The Bryn Mawr Painter is the name given to an Attic Greek red-figure vase painter,active in the late Archaic period.
Dyfri Williams is a British classical archaeologist. Williams received his doctorate in 1978 from Oxford University,writing on the work of the Antiphon Painter. He joined the Department of Antiquities at the British Museum in 1979. From 1993 to 2007,he was the museum's Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Since December 2007 he has been the research Keeper.
Ann Wheeler Ashmead is an American archaeologist who has co-authored comprehensive catalogues with archaeologist and Etruscologist Kyle Meredith Phillips,Jr. about the Greek Vase Painting collections of Bryn Mawr College (1971) and the Rhode Island School of Design (1976). She has also written the main published catalogue for the Antiquities Collection of Haverford College (1999). and many articles on Greek Vases.
Jenifer Neils is an American classical archaeologist and was from July 2017 to June 2022 director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Formerly she was the Elsie B. Smith Professor in the Liberal Arts in the Department of Classics at Case Western Reserve University.
Maria Ludwika Bernhard was a Polish classical archaeologist and a specialist in Greek Art. During the German Occupation of Poland in World War II,Bernhard was living in Warsaw and was active in the Polish Resistance Movement. After the war,Bernhard was a Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Warsaw. In 1957 she became the chair of the Department of Classical Archaeology at Jagiellonian University. She was also curator of the Ancient Art gallery at the National Museum in Warsaw from 1945 to 1962.
Annie Dunman Ure was an English archaeologist,who from 1922 to 1976 was the first Curator of the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology. She and her husband Percy Ure conducted important excavations at Ritsona in Boeotia,Greece,making her one of the first female archaeologists to lead an excavation in Greece.
Katherine Harloe is Professor of Classics and Director of the Institute of Classical Studies,School of Advanced Study,University of London. Previously she was Professor of Classics at the University of Reading. She is an expert on the history of classical scholarship,the reception of Greek and Roman antiquity,and the eighteenth-century German classicist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann. She is the first black professor of Classics in the UK,and the first woman director of the ICS.
Thomas Mannack is a German classical archaeologist.
Mary Zelia Pease Philippides was an American archaeologist and librarian. She was librarian at the American School for Classical Studies in Athens from 1958 to 1971.
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