Professor Peter Edgar Corbett (19 June 1920 – 31 August 1992), was a British

art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

and classical scholar.

Biography

Born in

Preston, Hertfordshire Preston is a village and civil parish about south of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England. At the 2011 Census the population was 420. The village grew up around the Templar holdings at Temple Dinsley. The first church was mentioned in 1252, when ...

on 19 June 1920, Peter Corbett was educated at

Bedford School :''Bedford School is not to be confused with Bedford Girls' School, Bedford High School, Bedford Modern School, Old Bedford School in Bedford, Texas or Bedford Academy in Bedford, Nova Scotia.'' Bedford School is a public school (English indep ...

and at

St John's College, Oxford St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979.Communication from Michael Riordan, college archivist Its founder, Sir Thomas White, intended to pro ...

. He was Thomas Whitcombe Greene Scholar and Macmillan Student in the

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between 1947 and 1949, Assistant Keeper in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum between 1949 and 1961,

Yates Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology The Yates Professorship of Classical Art and Archaeology is an endowed chair in classical archaeology at University College London. The chair is named in honour of James Yates (1789-1871), whose fortune was used to endow the chair in 1880. Yates ...

at University College London between 1961 and 1982, and President of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies between 1980 and 1983. Professor Peter Corbett died in London on 31 August 1992, aged 72.

Publications

*''The Sculpture of the Parthenon'', 1959 *''Greek Gods and Heroes'', 1974 *Articles in the ''Journal of Hellenic Studies'', ''Hesperia'', ''The Annual of the British School at Athens'', ''British Museum Quarterly'', and the ''Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies''

References

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