John Pollini

John Pollini (born August 15, 1945 in Boston ) is an American classical archaeologist .

Life

He received his BA magna cum laude , Classics, from the University of Washington (1968), the MA Ancient History and Mediterranean Archeology , University of California at Berkeley (1973) with his master’s thesis Two Marble Portrait Statues of Pugilists from Carian Aphrodisias: Iconography and Third Century AD Sculptural Traditions in the Roman East and the PhD , Ancient History and Mediterranean Archeology, University of California at Berkeley (1978) (interdisciplinary program with the departments of Art History , Classical Studies and History; major: Etruscan and Roman art and archeology; minor: Greek Art and Archeology and Roman History; Ph.D. Equivalence Exams in Ancient Greek and Latin ) with the Dissertation Studies in Augustan “Historical” Reliefs . As a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow , he conducted research from 1978 to 1979 at the Department of Classics at Case Western Reserve University . From 1979 to 1980 he taught as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at Johns Hopkins University . As a curator , he was responsible for the Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Museum from 1980 to 1987. From 1980 to 1987 he lectured as an assistant professor in the Department of Classics at Johns Hopkins University. From 1987 to 1991 he was Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and the Department of Classics (secondary occupation) at the University of Southern California. From 1990 to 1993 he was chairman of the art history department at the University of Southern California. Since 1991 he has been a professor at the Institute for Art History at the University of Southern California (University Professor of History and Associate Professor of Classical Philology). As dean , he led from 1993 to 1996, the School of Fine Arts of the University of Southern California.

Fonts (selection)

• The Portraiture of Gaius and Lucius Caesar. Fordham University Press, New York 1987, ISBN 978-0-8232-1127-2 .
• Roman Portraiture. Images of Character and Virtue. Selections from the J. Paul Getty Museum. March 28-April 20, 1990. S / M Printing, Los Angeles 1990, ISBN 0-945192-04-5 .
• Gallo-Roman Bronzes and the Process of Romanization. The Cobannus Hoard (= Monumenta Graeca et Romana. Volume 9). Brill, Leiden 2002, ISBN 90-04-12437-3 .
• The deNion Head. A Masterpiece of Archaic Greek Sculpture. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-8053-3149-5 .
• as editor: Terra Marique. Studies in Art History and Marine Archeology in Honor of Anna Marguerite McCann on the Receipt of the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America . Oxbow Books, Oxford 2005, ISBN 1-84217-148-8 .
• From Republic to Empire. Rhetoric, Religion, and Power in the Visual Culture of Ancient Rome (= Oklahoma series in classical culture. Volume 48). University of Oklahoma Press, Norman 2012, ISBN 90-04-12437-3 .

Web links

• academia.edu
• University of Southern California