Penelope Davies | |
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| Known for | Roman architecture |
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
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| Institutions | University of Texas at Austin |
Penelope Jane Ellis Davies [1] is a Roman archaeologist and art historian. She specialises in the architectural history of ancient Rome. She is a Professor of Art History,Roman Art and Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. [2]
Davies was educated at the University of Cambridge and Yale University. Her thesis was titled 'Politics and Design:The Funerary Monuments of the Roman Emperors from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius (28 B.C.-A.D. 193)'. [3]
Davies is Professor of Art History,Roman Art and Architecture at the University of Texas. [2] Her 2017 monograph,Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome,is described as "an authoritative account of the inextricable relationship between Roman art and architecture and Roman history". [4] Davies has collaborated on recent editions of Janson's History of Art [5] and Janson's A Basic History of Art. [6] In 2008,Davies was the Hugh Last Fellow at the British School at Rome in 2008. [7] Davies was the winner of the Dallas Museum of Arts’Vasari Award and in 2016 she received the College of Fine Arts Teaching Award. [2]
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