Sir John Boardman: "The Nude, Heroic and Otherwise"

Date
Wed April 26th 2006, 12:00am
Event Sponsor
Stanford Department of Classics
Sir John Boardman: "The Nude, Heroic and Otherwise"

This was the inaugural lecture for the Lorenz Eitner Lectures on Classical Art and Culture in the Classics Department at Stanford University. Sir John Boardman is a leading world expert on Greek art and is the Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art (emeritus) at Oxford University. He is the author of more than thirty books on Greek cultural contacts, Greek vase-painting, and the diffusion of Classical art outside Greece in antiquity and later eras. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and was made a knight of the British Empire in 1989.