Carol Mattusch

Carol Cressey Mattusch (born October 16, 1947 in Berlin ) is an American classical archaeologist and art historian .

Life

Carol Mattusch began her studies in 1965 at the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archeology at Bryn Mawr College . There she graduated with a BA in 1969 and continued her postgraduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . With the work Casting Techniques of Greek Bronze Sculpture. Foundries and Foundry Remains from the Athenian Agora with Reference to Other Ancient Sources , she was awarded a Ph.D. PhD . This work was based on her research on the Athens Agora , in whose excavations by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens she participated in 1972–1973 as well as in the American excavations in Corinth . Since then she has been a member of the American School, of which she has been a member of the Managing Committee since 1983. From 2006 to 2010 she was a member of the Executive Committee and from 1998 to 2006 also chaired the Publications Committee of the American School.

Carol Mattusch began her university career in 1977 at George Mason University as an assistant professor , and in 1982 she became an associate professor there. She was also a Lecturer at the Smithsonian Institution from 1979 to 1985, and from 1979 to 1985 and from 1998 to 2002 also a Traveling Lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America . In 1990 she became a full professor of art and art history. In 1993, she was visiting professor at the University of Virginia . Since 1998 she has been Mathy Professor of Art History at George Mason University. In 2003 she chaired the planning committee for the assembly of the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica .

She has won various awards for her work. Among other things, she received the James R. Wiseman Book Award from the Archaeological Institute of America in 1997 and the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the College Art Association in 2006 . Carol Mattusch is a member of the German Archaeological Institute and the Society of Antiquaries of London .

Researches

In research and teaching, Carol Mattusch deals with ancient art and culture on the one hand, and with the art of the 18th century and the rediscovery of antiquity in the Age of Enlightenment on the other. Since her doctorate, she has been particularly interested in antique bronze sculptures , in particular antique bronze technology , its development and interaction with the artistic style as well as the trade and distribution of bronze works in the ancient world. The focus here is on the large bronzes.

Based on her knowledge in this field , Carol Mattusch curated the exhibition The Fire of Hephaistos in 1996 . Large Classical Bronzes from North American Collections for the Harvard University Art Museum , which was also shown at the Toledo Museum of Art and 1997 at the Tampa Museum of Art . In the same year she was on the planning committee of the XIIIth International Congress of Ancient Bronzes, which was held in Cambridge, Massachusetts . She wrote the chapter Metalworking and Tools for the Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World .

Another area of ​​research is the cultural development in the network of relations between Greece , Magna Graecia and Etruria , especially the cities of Vesuvius and their influence on Rome. As curator, she was responsible for the exhibition Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples at the National Gallery of Art in 2008, which was repeated at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2009 .

Publications (selection)

• Enduring bronze. Ancient Art, Modern Views. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2014, ISBN 978-1-60606-326-2 .
• Johann Joachim Winckelmann: Letter and Report on the Discoveries at Herculaneum. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2011, ISBN 978-1-60606-089-6 .
• Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples. Exhibition catalog. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2008, ISBN 978-0-89468-353-4
• with AA Donohue, Amy Brauer (Ed.): Common Ground: Archeology, Art, Science, and Humanities. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Classical Archeology. Oxbow, Oxford 2006, ISBN 978-1-84217-183-7 .
• The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum: Life and Afterlife of a Sculpture Collection. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2005, ISBN 0-8923-6722-9 .
• with Amy Brauer, Sandra E. Knudsen (Eds.): From the Parts to the Whole. Acta of the 13th International Bronze Congress (= Journal of Roman Archeology . Supplementary Series 39). Two volumes. Journal of Roman Archeology, Portsmouth 2000-2002.
• The Victorious Youth. J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu 1997, ISBN 0-8923-6470-X .
• The Fire of Hephaistos: Large Classical Bronzes from North American Collections. Exhibition catalog. Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge (Mass.) 1996, ISBN 0-9167-2489-1 .
• Classical Bronzes: The Art and Craft of Greek and Roman Statuary. Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1996, ISBN 0-8014-3182-4 .
• Greek Bronze Statuary: From the Beginnings through the Fifth Century BC Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1988, ISBN 0-8014-2148-9 .
• Bronze workers in the Athenian Agora (= Athenian Agora Picture Book. Volume 20). American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton (NJ) 1982, ISBN 0-8766-1624-4 .

Web links

• Curriculum Vitae at George Mason University (PDF; accessed February 2, 2018)
• CV at the National Gallery of Art (accessed February 2, 2018)
• Resume in the Writers Directory 2005, accessed on Encyclopedia.com (accessed February 2, 2018)

Remarks

1. ^ Carol Mattusch: Metalworking and Tools. In: John Peter Oleson (Ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World. Oxford University Press, New York 2008, pp. 569-595.