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Penelope Davies | |
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| Known for | Roman architecture |
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Academic work | |
| 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]
Education
[edit]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]
Career
[edit]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]
Selected publications
[edit]- 1997. The Politics of Perpetuation: Trajan's Column and the Art of Commemoration. American Journal of Archaeology 101 (1): 47–48. DOI:10.2307/506249
- 2000. Death and the Emperor (Cambridge University Press)
- 2017. Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome (Cambridge University Press)
- 2017. A Republican Dilemma: City or State? Or, The Concrete Revolution Revisited. Papers of the British School at Rome 85: 71–107.
- 2019. Vandalism and Resistance in Republican Rome. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 78(1): 6-24. DOI: 10.1525/jsah.2019.78.1.6
References
[edit]- ↑ ISNI 0000000109233802.
- 1 2 3 "Penelope Davies - Department of Art and Art History - The University of Texas at Austin". Department of Art and Art History - University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
- ↑ Davies, Penelope Jane Ellis. Politics and Design: The Funerary Monuments of the Roman Emperors from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius (28 B.C.-A.D. 193).
- ↑ Mogetta, Marcello (2019). "Book Review of Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome, by Penelope J.E. Davies". American Journal of Archaeology. 123 (1). doi:10.3764/ajaonline1231.mogetta. ISSN 1939-828X.
- ↑ Janson's History of art : the Western tradition. Davies, Penelope J. E., 1964- (Reissued eighth ed.). Boston. 2015-01-12. ISBN 978-0-13-387829-5. OCLC 887186711.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link) - ↑ Davies, Penelope J. E., 1964- (2014). Janson's basic history of Western art. Davies, Penelope J. E., 1964-, Hofrichter, Frima Fox,, Jacobs, Joseph, 1946-, Roberts, Ann, 1952-, Simon, David L., 1946- (Ninth ed.). Boston. ISBN 978-0-205-24263-4. OCLC 808628395.
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