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Penelope Davies

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Penelope Davies
Known forRoman architecture
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas at Austin

Penelope Jane Ellis Davies[1] is a Roman archaeologist and art historian. She specialises in the architectural history of ancient Rome. She is a Professor of Art History, Roman Art and Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.[2]

Education

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Davies was educated at the University of Cambridge and Yale University. Her thesis was titled 'Politics and Design: The Funerary Monuments of the Roman Emperors from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius (28 B.C.-A.D. 193)'.[3]

Career

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Davies is Professor of Art History, Roman Art and Architecture at the University of Texas.[2] Her 2017 monograph, Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome, is described as "an authoritative account of the inextricable relationship between Roman art and architecture and Roman history".[4] Davies has collaborated on recent editions of Janson's History of Art[5] and Janson's A Basic History of Art.[6] In 2008, Davies was the Hugh Last Fellow at the British School at Rome in 2008.[7] Davies was the winner of the Dallas Museum of Arts’ Vasari Award and in 2016 she received the College of Fine Arts Teaching Award.[2]

Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ ISNI 0000000109233802.
  2. ^ a b c "Penelope Davies - Department of Art and Art History - The University of Texas at Austin". Department of Art and Art History - University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  3. ^ Davies, Penelope Jane Ellis. Politics and Design: The Funerary Monuments of the Roman Emperors from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius (28 B.C.-A.D. 193).
  4. ^ Mogetta, Marcello (2019). "Book Review of Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome, by Penelope J.E. Davies". American Journal of Archaeology. 123 (1). doi:10.3764/ajaonline1231.mogetta. ISSN 1939-828X.
  5. ^ Janson's History of art : the Western tradition. Davies, Penelope J. E., 1964- (Reissued eighth ed.). Boston. 2015-01-12. ISBN 978-0-13-387829-5. OCLC 887186711.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  6. ^ Davies, Penelope J. E., 1964- (2014). Janson's basic history of Western art. Davies, Penelope J. E., 1964-, Hofrichter, Frima Fox,, Jacobs, Joseph, 1946-, Roberts, Ann, 1952-, Simon, David L., 1946- (Ninth ed.). Boston. ISBN 978-0-205-24263-4. OCLC 808628395.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ "Award-holders 2005 to 2012-13 « The British School at Rome". Retrieved 2020-02-08.