Darrell A. Amyx
Darrell Arlynn Amyx (born April 2, 1911 in Exeter, California , † January 10, 1997 in Kensington, California ) was an American classical archaeologist .
After studying at Stanford and Berkeley, he received his doctorate in Berkeley in 1947. From 1946 until his retirement in 1978 he taught at the University of California, Berkeley .
His life's work was dedicated to the art of Corinth and, above all, to archaic Corinthian vase painting . As a successor to Humfry Payne , he used the method of John D. Beazley to assign Corinthian ceramics to individual 'hands', tangible individual artists whom he gave emergency names , as hardly any of them signed.
Publications (selection)
- An Amphora with a Price Inscription in the Hearst Collection at San Simeon . Berkeley 1941.
- with Barbara A. Forbes (Ed.): Echoes from Olympus: Reflections of Divinity in Small-scale Classical Art . Berkeley 1974.
- with Patricia Lawrence: Archaic Corinthian Pottery and the Anaploga Well . Princeton, NJ 1975, ISBN 0-87661-072-6 .
- Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period . 3 volumes. Berkeley 1988, ISBN 0-520-03166-0 .
- with Patricia Lawrence: Studies in Archaic Corinthian Vase Painting . Princeton, NJ 1996, ISBN 0-87661-528-0 .
literature
- Mario A. Del Chiaro (Ed.): Corinthiaca. Studies in honor of Darrell A. Amyx . Columbia, Missouri 1986, ISBN 0-8262-0617-4 (with list of publications).
- Evelyn E. Bell, Barbara A. Forbes: Darrell Arlynn Amyx, 1911-1997 . In: American Journal of Archeology 102 (1998) pp 179-180.
- Evelyn E. Bell, Barbara A. Forbes: Darell A. Amyx . In: Gnomon 70 (1998) pp. 575-576.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amyx, Darrell A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Amyx, Darrell Arlynn; Amyx, Darrell |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American classical archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Exeter (California) |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1997 |
| Place of death | Kensington (California) |