Peter Stewart (archaeologist)

Peter C. N. Stewart (* 1971 in Belfast ) is a British classical archaeologist .

Peter Stewart attended the Royal Belfast Academical Institution in Belfast from 1983 to 1990 . He then studied at Clare College of the University of Cambridge , where he obtained a Master of Arts , a Master of Philosophy and a Ph.D. (1998) obtained. In 1997/98 he also taught at this university. Then he was from 1998 Lecturer at the University of Reading and curator at the Ure Museum of Greek Archeology at the University. From there he moved to the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London in October 2000 , where he was a reader for ancient art and its afterlife. He was also dean here in 2010/11 . In October 2011, Stewart went to the University of Oxford . There he became Associate Professor of Classical Art and Archeology and, in succession to Donna C. Kurtz, Director of the Classical Art Research Center - Beazley Archive and Fellow at Wolfson College , of which he is also a member.

Stewart's research interests are broad, but primarily focus on ancient sculpture. Like many of his colleagues, he not only researches the classical times of sculpture, but also repeatedly researches in comparatively marginal areas. For example, he examined the influences of Greco-Roman art on the art of Gandhara or provincial Roman sculptures. He is also interested in the modern reception of ancient statues and their collection history. He published a catalog of the collection of ancient statues in Wilton House .

Fonts (selection)

• Statues in Roman Society. Representation and Response. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2003, ISBN 0-19-924094-9 .
• Roman Art (= New surveys in the classics Vol. 34). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-852081-6 .
• The Social History of Roman Art. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-81632-8 , ISBN 978-0-521-01659-9 .
• with Wannaporn Rienjang (Ed.): Problems of Chronology in Gandhāran Art. Proceedings of the First International Workshop of the Gandhāra Connections Project, University of Oxford, 23rd-24th March, 2017. Archaeopress, Oxford 2018, ISBN 978-1-78491- 855-2 .
• with Wannaporn Rienjang (Ed.): The Geography of Gandhāran Art. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop of the Gandhāra Connections Project, University of Oxford, 22nd-23rd March, 2018. Archaeopress, Oxford 2019, ISBN 978-1-78969-186 -3 .
• A Catalog of the Sculpture Collection at Wilton House. Archaeopress, Oxford 2020.

Web links

• Biographical summary on the Faculty of Classics website at the University of Oxford
• Biographical summary on the Wolfson College, University of Oxford website
• Biographical summary on the website of the School of Archeology at the University of Oxford
• Biographical summary on the Beazley Archive website
• Biographical summary on the linkedin website
• Publications at academia.edu
• Literature by and about Peter Stewart (archaeologist) in the bibliographic database WorldCat