Carol C. Mattusch is the Mathay Professor of Art History at

George Mason University George Mason University (George Mason, Mason, or GMU) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia with an independent City of Fairfax, Virginia postal address in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. The university was origin ...

. She is a specialist in Greek, Roman and 18th century art.

Education

Mattusch studied at

Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh: ) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United St ...

, graduating in 1969. She received her PhD from the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...

in 1975.

Career

Mattusch has taught at George Mason University since 1979. Her research focuses on Classical bronzes. She has undertaken a detailed study on the bronze statues from the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum. Throughout her career she has curated several exhibitions. She curated ''The Fire of Hephaistos: Large Classical Bronzes from North American Collections'' (1996-7) at the

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, which exhibited 50 large Greek and Roman bronzes. She curated an exhibition at the

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entitled ''Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples'' in 2008–2009, which was repeated at the

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in 2009. The exhibition included paintings, mosaics and artworks from the villa at

Oplontis Oplontis is an ancient Roman archaeological site located in the town of Torre Annunziata, south of Naples in the Campania region of southern Italy. The excavated site comprises two Roman villas, the best-known of which is Villa A, the so-called V ...

, Villa San Marco at

Stabiae Stabiae () was an ancient city situated near the modern town of Castellammare di Stabia and approximately 4.5 km southwest of Pompeii. Like Pompeii, and being only from Mount Vesuvius, this seaside resort was largely buried by tephra ash ...

and the Villa dei Papiri at

Herculaneum Herculaneum (; Neapolitan and it, Ercolano) was an ancient town, located in the modern-day ''comune'' of Ercolano, Campania, Italy. Herculaneum was buried under volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Like the nea ...

, as well as works from urban houses at

Pompeii Pompeii (, ) was an ancient city located in what is now the ''comune'' of Pompei near Naples in the Campania region of Italy. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area (e.g. at Boscoreale, Stabiae), was buried ...

. She won the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award (2006) from the

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for ''The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum'' and the James R. Wiseman Book Award (1997) from the

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for ''Classical Bronzes.'' Mattusch was elected as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2009 and is a corresponding member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. From 2013 she was President of the American Friends of Herculaneum. Mattusch has held three fellowships at the National Gallery of Art's Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts (CASVA), including and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Paired Fellowship for Research in Conservation and Archaeology with Henry Lie (1997-1998) and the Paul Mellon Senior Fellowship (2005-2006).

Selected publications

* ''Bronzeworkers in the Athenian Agora'' (1982). * ''Greek Bronze Statuary: From the Beginnings through the Fifth Century B.C.'' (Cornell University Press, 1988) * ''Classical Bronzes: The Art and Craft of Greek and Roman Statuary'' (Cornell University Press, 1996) * ''The Fire of Hephaistos: Large Classical Bronzes from North American Collections'', exhibition catalogue (Harvard University Art Museums, 1996) * ''The Victorious Youth'' (J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997) * ''The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum: Life and Afterlife of a Sculpture Collection'' (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005) * ''Pompeii and the Roman Villa'', exhibition catalogue (National Gallery of Art, 2009)

References

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