Gisela M.A. Richter

Gisela Marie Augusta Richter (August 14, 1882 – December 24, 1972), was a classical archaeologist and art historian. Image File history File links Richter. ... Image File history File links Richter. ... August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (227th in leap years), with 139 days remaining. ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... December 24 is the 358th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (359th in leap years). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...

Gisela Richter was born in London, England; the daughter of Jean Paul and Louise (Schwaab) Richter. Both of her parents and her sister, Irma, were historians of Italian Renaissance art. She was educated at Maida Vale School, one of the finest schools for women at the time. She decided to become a classical archaeologist while attending Emmanuel Loewy's lectures at the University of Rome around 1896. In 1901 she attended Girton College at the University of Cambridge, and the British School of Archaeology, Athens, Greece. There is no institution called the University of Rome, but there are several universities in Rome: University of Rome La Sapienza University of Rome Tor Vergata University of Roma Tre This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Full name Girton College Motto - Named after Girton Village Previous names The College for Women (1869), Girton College (1872) Established 1869 Sister College Somerville College Mistress Dame Marylin Strathern Location Huntingdon Road Undergraduates 503 Graduates 201 Homepage Boatclub Girton College lies on the extremity of Cambridge Girton College was established... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ...

She joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as an assistant in 1906, becoming assistant curator in 1910, associate curator in 1922, and curator of Greek and Roman art in 1925, a position she held until 1948, when she became honorary curator until her death in 1972. As curator she was one of the most influential people in classical art history at the time. Interior of the museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art, often referred to simply as The Met, is one of the worlds largest and most important art museums, located on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan, New York, United States. ...

She lectured at Columbia University, Yale University, Bryn Mawr College, and Oberlin College. As author of numerous popular books on classical art, she was enormously influential on the general public's understanding and appreciation of the subject. Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. ... Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. ... Bryn Mawr is also the name of an official neighborhood of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota Bryn Mawr College is a highly-selective womens liberal-arts college located in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, ten miles northwest of Philadelphia. ... Students passing through the Oberlin Memorial Arch in front of Peters Hall on the Oberlin College campus Oberlin College is a small liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio. ...

Writing 30 years after Richter's death, Camille Paglia paid tribute to her "for her clarity and rigor of mind; her fineness of sensibility and connoisseurship; her attention to detail and her power of observation and deduction; her mastery of form and design." Camille Paglia Camille Anna Paglia (born April 2, 1947 in Endicott, New York) is a social critic, author, and self-described Amazon-feminist. ...

Books by Gisela Richter

• Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes, Gilliss Press, 1915.
• Catalogue of Engraved Gems of the Classical Style, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1920, published as Catalogue of Engraved Gems: Greek, Etruscan and Roman, 1956.
• The Craft of Athenian Pottery, Yale University Press, 1923.
• Ancient Furniture, Clarendon Press, 1926.
• Handbook of the Classical Collection, revised and enlarged edition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1927.
• The Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, Yale University Press, 1929, 4th revised edition, 1970.
• Animals in Greek Sculpture: A Survey, Oxford University Press, 1930.
• Shapes and Names of Athenian Vases, Plantin, 1935, reprinted, McGrath, 1973.
• Red-Figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Press, 1936.
• Handbook of the Etruscan Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1940.
• Ancient Gems from the Evans and Beatty Collections, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1942.
• (With Irma Richter) Kouroi: Archaic Greek Youths, Oxford University Press, 1942, 3rd edition, Phaidon, 1970.
• Archaic Attic Gravestones, Harvard University Press, 1944.
• Attic Red-Figured Vases, Yale University Press, 1946, revised edition, 1958.
• Roman Portraits, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1948.
• Archaic Greek Art against Its Historical Background, Oxford University Press, 1949.
• Three Critical Periods in Greek Sculpture, Oxford University Press, 1952.
• Attic Black-Figured Kylikes, Harvard University Press, 1953.
• Handbook of the Greek Collection, Harvard University Press, 1953.
• Catalogue of Greek Sculptures, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard University Press, 1954.
• Ancient Italy, University of Michigan Press, 1955.
• Greek Portraits, Latomus, Volume I, 1955, Volume II, 1959, Volume III, 1960, Volume IV, 1962, Volume V, 1964.
• Catalogue of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Harvard University Press, 1956.
• Greek Painting, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1957.
• A Handbook of Greek Art, Phaidon, 1959, 6th edition, 1969.
• The Archaic Gravestones of Attica, Phaidon, 1961.
• The Portraits of the Greeks, three volumes, Phaidon, 1965, supplement, 1972.
• The Furniture of the Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans, Phaidon, 1966.
• Korai: Archaic Greek Maidens, Phaidon, 1968.
• Engraved Gems of the Greeks and the Etruscans, Praeger, Volume I, 1968, Volume II, 1971.
• Perspective in Greek and Roman Art, Phaidon, 1970.

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Sources

• My Memoirs: Recollections of an Archaeologist's Life, by Gisela Richter, 1972.
• "Gisela Richter," in Notable American Women, ed. Barbara Sicherman and Carol H. Green, 1980.
• "Scholar of Classical Art and Museum Archaeologist," in Women as Interpreters of the Visual Arts, 1820-1979, ed. Claire R. Sherman,1981
• "Gisela Richter," in Invisible Giants: 50 Americans That Shaped the Nation but Missed the History Books, Oxford University Press; March 2002.

Obituaries

• Frank E. Brown, Studi Etruschi 41 (1973)
• Homer Thompson, American Philosophical Socicety-Yearbook (1973)
• Cornelius C. Vermeule III, The Burlington Magazine 115 (1973)