Elfriede Knauer ( née Overhoff;3 July 1926 –7 June 2010 [1] ) was a German Classicist and Ancient historian specialising in Greek vase painting,the survival of classical themes in Renaissance art,the history of cartography,classical influences on Central and East Asian art,and the Silk Road. [2]
Knauer gained her PhD in 1951 on the subject of pre-Christian apsidal buildings in Greece and Italy from the Goethe University Frankfurt. It was supervised by Guido Kaschnitz von Weinberg. [1] Elfriede,along with her husband Georg Nicolaus Knauer (a noted philologist) lived in West Berlin between 1954 and 1975;she worked as an assistant in the department of Greek and Roman Antiquities of the State Museums. The Knauers travelled widely together,particularly to the United States and in the Mediterranean countries. [3] The Knauers both joined the University of Pennsylvania in early 1975,though rules at the time prevented husbands and wives from lecturing together –Elfriede was thus able to lecture only twice for the department of the history of art,in 1979 and 1981. This obstacle,however,has been cited as an important factor in allowing Elfriede nearly unlimited time for research and writing and contributed significantly to her substantial publication record. [1] Elfried had written seventy-six books and articles at the time of her death. [3] She was eventually appointed research associate in the Mediterranean Section at the Penn Museum and latterly served as a consulting scholar. [2] In 1994,she was a visiting research fellow in classical archaeology and art history at the American Academy in Rome and was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1999. [1] In 2002,she received the Director's Award for distinguished service to the Penn Museum. [2]
Following her death,her archive of academic papers and photographs was donated to the Classical Art Research Centre at the University of Oxford. [4]
Elfriede's grandfather Edmund Kloeppel was a board member of the Bayer company. She has a twin sister,Sybille (a noted Etruscologist). [1] She married her husband Georg Nicolaus Knauer in 1951.
Gisela Marie Augusta Richter was a British-American classical archaeologist and art historian. She was a prominent figure and an authority in her field.
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.
Sir John Davidson Beazley,was a British classical archaeologist and art historian,known for his classification of Attic vases by artistic style. He was professor of classical archaeology and art at the University of Oxford from 1925 to 1956.
Arthur Dale Trendall,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.
The Antikensammlung Berlin is one of the most important collections of classical art in the world,now held in the Altes Museum and Pergamon Museum in Berlin,Germany. It contains thousands of ancient archaeological artefacts from the ancient Greek,Roman,Etruscan and Cypriot civilizations. Its main attraction is the Pergamon Altar and Greek and Roman architectural elements from Priene,Magnesia,Baalbek and Falerii. In addition,the collection includes a large number of ancient sculptures,vases,terracottas,bronzes,sarcophagi,engraved gems and metalwork.
The Triptolemos Painter was an ancient Greek vase painter,belonging to the Attic red-figure style. He was active in Athens between 490 and 470 BC. His real name is not known. He started working in the workshop of Euphronios,where he was probably taught by Douris. Later,he also worked for the potters Brygos,Hieron and Python. Initially,his style was strongly influenced by Archaic art. His later works are mediocre in quality. Nonetheless,his repertoire is broad,reaching from the Apaturia procession via erotic scenes and Theban scenes to the departure of Triptolemos.
Knauer is a German surname. Descendants from the Charlemagne line. The Palace at Coburg. Notable people with the surname include:
The Lysippides Painter was an Attic vase painter in the black-figure style. He was active around 530 to 510 BC. His conventional name comes from a kalos inscription on a vase in the British Museum attributed to him;his real name is not known.
Georg Nicolaus Knauer was a German-American Vergilian philologist who was a Professor in the Classics Department of the University of Pennsylvania. He also previously taught at the Freie Universität Berlin from 1954 to 1974 before becoming a Penn professor the following year. He is best known for Die Aeneis und Homer:Studien zur poetischen Technik Vergils mit Listen der Homerzitate in der Aeneis,published in 1964 by Vandenhoeck &Ruprecht in Göttingen,which is regarded as a comprehensive work on the influence of Homer upon Vergil. That work explains the similarities between the Aeneid and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey,and contains a comprehensive index of similarities between those works.
Mary Hamilton Swindler was an American archaeologist,classical art scholar,author,and professor of classical archaeology,most notably at Bryn Mawr College,the University of Pennsylvania,and the University of Michigan. Swindler also founded the Ella Riegel Memorial Museum at Bryn Mawr College. She participated in various archaeological excavations in Greece,Egypt,and Turkey. The recipient of several awards and honors for her research,Swindler's seminal work was Ancient Painting,from the Earliest Times to the Period of Christian Art (1929).
Semni Papaspyridi-Karouzou was a Greek classical archaeologist who specialized in the study of pottery from ancient Greece. She was the first woman to join the Greek Archaeological Service;she excavated in Crete,Euboea,Thessaly,and the Argolid,and worked as Curator of ceramic collections at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens for over thirty years. She experienced political persecution under the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. She has been described by the archaeologists Marianna Nikolaidou and Dimitra Kokkinidou as "perhaps the most important woman in Greek archaeology",and by the newspaper To Vima as "the last representative of the generation of great archaeologists".
Beth Cohen is an American classical archaeologist. She studied under German-American art historian Dietrich von Bothmer at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University where she received her doctorate on bilingual vase painting of Ancient Greece. Her dissertation,Attic Bilingual Vases and their Painters is the main book used in the study of bilingual vase painting. Cohen became a specialist in the field of Greek vase painting,especially on rare forms of Attic vase painting. She organized the 2006 exhibition The colors of clay. Special techniques in Athenian vases at J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu.
Diana Buitron-Oliver was an American classical archaeologist and curator,specializing in Greek vase painting.
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.
Sybille Edith Haynes,is a British expert on Etruscology. She grew up and was educated in Germany and Austria before moving to the UK in the 1950s. She worked with Etruscan artefacts at the British Museum for many years as well as publishing numerous books,for fellow scholars and also for the general public. In the 1980s she joined the Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity at Corpus Christi College,Oxford.
Rosemary Julia Barrow was a Welsh art historian who specialised in classical themes in Victorian art and the painting of Lawrence Alma-Tadema in particular,whose reputation she attempted to restore.
A caftan or coat of linen with silk borders in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art represents the typical clothing worn by horsemen along the Silk Road in the North Caucasus during the 8th–10th centuries. The caftan is reconstructed from garment fragments excavated from a burial ground near Moshchevaja Balka. Moshchevaja Balka is considered part of the Saltovo-Mayaki archaeological culture.
Amy C. Smith is the current Curator of the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology and Professor of Classical Archaeology at Reading University. She is known for her work on iconography,the history of collections,and digital museology.
Gladys Davidson Weinberg was an American archaeologist known for her work on ancient and medieval glass and its manufacture in the Mediterranean. She was the editor of Archaeology magazine from 1952 to 1967.
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