Columbia University (B.A., 1909) University of Oxford (B.A., 1911; upgraded to M.A. 1914) Columbia University (Ph.D., 1916)
Occupation(s)
professor, classical scholar, art historian, author
Known for
Homeric studies
Spouse
Eleanor Houston Hill (m. 1918)
Rhys Carpenter (August 5, 1889 – January 2, 1980) was an American classical art historian and professor at Bryn Mawr College.
Carpenter was unconventional as a scholar. He analyzed Greek art from the standpoint of artistic production and behavior. He argued for dating the Greek alphabet to the eighth century B.C.
RhysCarpenter (August 5, 1889 – January 2, 1980) was an American classical art historian and professor at Bryn Mawr College. Carpenter was unconventional...
statue (damaged in 1997) that is now located in a high alcove in the RhysCarpenter Art and Archaeology Library. A plaster cast of that Athena now stands...
Brinkmann follows the interpretation of Phyllis L. Williams (1945) and RhysCarpenter (1945) and identifies the statue as one of the Dioscures. Etcheto, Les...
application of that canon in works of art. An observation on the subject by RhysCarpenter remains valid: "Yet it must rank as one of the curiosities of our archaeological...
every element was calculated and constructed by mathematical relations. RhysCarpenter states that the ratio 2:1 was "the generative ratio of the Doric order...
acting Bert Hodge Hill (1906 to 1926) Carl Blegen (1926 to 1927); acting RhysCarpenter (1927 to 1932) Richard Stillwell (1932 to 1935) Edward Capps (1935 to...
application of that canon in works of art. An observation on the subject by RhysCarpenter remains valid: "Yet it must rank as one of the curiosities of our archaeological...
suggested as evidence of the great antiquity of this tradition. Scholar RhysCarpenter in 1946 emphasized that the Badger Day tradition was strong in Germany...
University Press, 1998 (1st edition 1996) ISBN 0-521-65738-5, pp. 103-110. RhysCarpenter, "Two Postscripts to the Hermes Controversy", American Journal of Archaeology...
Syria 35–37. To know what a thing is, we must know the look of it": RhysCarpenter: The esthetic basis of Greek art. Indiana University Press. p. 108 C...
keep manageably within the boundaries of a single block of stone", as RhysCarpenter observes; it is unlikely to postdate Nero because of its find location...
Vase-painting, Charles Seltman (1933) Volume 4 Humanistic Value of Archaeology RhysCarpenter (1933) Volume 5 Greek Ideals and Modern Life, Sir. R. W. Livingstone...
Bert Hodge Hill, Carl Blegen, William Dinsmoor Sr., Oscar Broneer, and RhysCarpenter worked to uncover much of the site before WWII. Since then, under the...
Vanderbilt University Exeter 1908 United States American football player RhysCarpenter Columbia University Balliol 1908 United States Classical art historian...
Mawr College in Pennsylvania, where she came under the tutelage of RhysCarpenter. At the end of her MA, she wrote her thesis on Archaic sculpture at...
Swedish-born archaeologist of Etruscan culture (d. 1969) August 5 – RhysCarpenter, American Classical art historian (d. 1980) December 1 – Alexander Keiller...
in Art Bulletin, and by RhysCarpenter in American Journal of Archaeology. Art historian Michael Quick says Blake and Carpenter "used different methods...
with the surname Carpenter. See Carpenter (surname) for the etymology and related names. See Carpenter (disambiguation) for Carpenter named communities...
early members included William F. Albright, Robert Pierpont Blake, RhysCarpenter, Franklin Edgerton, W. Max Müller, E. A. Speiser, and Solomon Zeitlin...
of Biology, University of Missouri-St. Louis. Brunilde S. Ridgway, RhysCarpenter Professor Emeritus of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr...
upon, Madigan:Bassitas:3, p.91, n.1 remarks that H. Kenner detects 9, RhysCarpenter in unpublished notes finds 5, BS Ridgway 4 and U. Liepmann 3 groups...
nineteenth-century narthex. Around 1958, she and the art historian RhysCarpenter climbed Mount Pentelicus, guided by Homer Thompson, the director of...
began her studies at Bryn Mawr College where she took courses with RhysCarpenter and Mary Hamilton Swindler. She graduated summa cum laude in 1923, the...
John Braidwood 1970: George E. Mylonas 1969: Oscar Theodore Broneer, RhysCarpenter, and William B. Dinsmoor Jr. 1968: Gisela M. A. Richter 1967: William...
Protection Site program is created to protect Chacoan sites. January 2 - RhysCarpenter, American Classical art historian (b. 1889) August 24 - André Parrot...
constructions. The mosque was studied by archaeologists Antoine Bon and RhysCarpenter in 1936. During the 2000s, the building underwent consolidation work...
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