Ricardo Olmos Romera

Ricardo Olmos Romera (born June 28, 1946 in Madrid ) is a Spanish classical archaeologist .

Ricardo Olmos Romera studied Classical Philology at the Complutense University in Madrid . After graduating, he was employed at the Museo Arqueológico Nacional de España and, from 1973–1974, was entrusted by Martín Almagro Basch to reorganize the collection of Greek vases . Almagro Basch arranged for Ricardo Olmos a scholarship from the German Archaeological Institute , which led him to study Greek ceramics, religion and iconography at the University of Würzburg with Erika Simon .

In 1975 he returned to the museum. In 1976 the doctorate took place . The topic of his dissertation was Contribución al estudio de las cerámicas áticas del Museo Arqueológico Nacional. Aportaciones iconográficas y estilísticas ("Contribution to the study of Attic ceramics in the National Archaeological Museum. Iconographic and stylistic contributions") - fruit of his research with Erika Simon. At the National Museum he was appointed deputy curator in 1976 and full curator in 1979 . Here he was responsible for the department of Greek antiquity and related cultures in the Aegean and the Etruscan-Italian region. From 1979 to 1982 he was also secretary of the museum.

In 1986 he moved to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) as a research assistant, where he headed the Department of Archeology and Ancient History as Director for several years. In 2003 he was appointed professor at the Centro de Estudios Históricos of the CSIC. From 2006 until his retirement in 2011, he took over the management of the Escuela Española de Historia y Arquelogía en Roma , a foreign institute of the CSIC based in Rome .

Ricardo Olmos was a founding member and member of the scientific advisory board of the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae . He was also Spain's representative on the scientific advisory board of the Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum . His research interests are widespread and cover almost all aspects of ancient culture. He deserves special credit for his knowledge of a genuinely Iberian iconography in the context of ancient cultures - an area in which Ricardo Olmos is doing pioneering work.

Publications (selection)

• Cerámica griega (= Guías del Museo Arqueológico Nacional. Volume 1). Dirección General de Bellas Artes, Madrid 1973, ISBN 84-369-0285-8 .
• Catalogo de los vasos griegos en el Museo Arqueológico Nacional. Volume 1: Las lecitos áticas de fondo blanco. Ministerio de cultura, Madrid 1980, ISBN 84-7483-128-8 .
• Vasos griegos, collección condes de Lagunillas. Akanthus, Kilchberg / Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-905083-02-7 .
• Catálogo de los vasos griegos del Museo nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana. Ministero de Cultura, Madrid 1993, ISBN 84-7483-981-5 .

literature

• Pedro Bádenas de la Peña et al. (Ed.): Homenaje a Ricardo Olmos. Per speculum in aenigmate. Miradas sobre la Antigüedad (= Erytheia. Estudios y textos. Volume 7). Asociación Cultural Hispano-Helénica, Madrid 2014, ISBN 978-84-87724-04-6 ( digitized ).

Web links

• Ricardo Olmos Romera on the Museo Arqueológico Nacional de España website (Spanish, accessed August 11, 2020)