Dietrich von Bothmer
Dietrich Felix von Bothmer was a German-born American art historian, who spent six decades as a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he developed into the world's leading specialist in the field of ancient Greek vases.
Early life and education
Bothmer was born in Eisenach, Germany on October 26, 1918. An ardent opponent of the Nazi dictatorship, he attended Berlin's Friedrich Wilhelms University and then Wadham College, Oxford in 1938 on the final Rhodes Scholarship awarded in Germany. There he worked with Sir John Beazley on his books Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters and Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, working collaboratively to group works by identifying the individual craftsmen and workshops that had created each of hundreds of Greek vases. He graduated in 1939 with a major in classical archaeology.A tour of museums in the United States in 1939 left Bothmer stuck there with the start of World War II. Due to his strong anti-Nazi sentiments, he refused to return to Germany, and narrowly escaped being sent back to Germany against his will. He earned his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley in 1944. Though not yet a citizen, in 1943 he volunteered for the United States Army. After 90 days in the U.S. Army, he was sworn in as a U.S. citizen in March, 1944. He served in the Pacific theater of operations, earning a Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart for a conspicuous act of bravery on August 11, 1944, while serving in the South Pacific, where, despite being wounded himself in the thigh, foot, and arm, he recovered a wounded comrade and carried him back three miles through enemy lines.
Career
Following the completion of his military service, Bothmer was hired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1946, and was named as a curator in 1959. By 1973, he was department chairman and he was named in 1990 as distinguished research curator.In 1972, together with the Director, Thomas Hoving, Bothmer argued in favor of the purchase of the Euphronios Krater, a vase used to mix wine with water that dated from the sixth century BCE. They convinced the museum's board to purchase the artifact for $1 million, which the museum funded through the sale of its coin collection. The Government of Italy demanded the object's return, citing claims that the vase had been taken illegally from an ancient Etruscan site near Rome. The krater was one of 20 pieces that the museum sent back to Italy in 2008 in exchange for multi-year loans of ancient artifacts that were put on display at the Met, as part of an agreement reached in 2006.
Bothmer's 1977 exhibit "Thracian Treasures from Bulgaria" covered twenty centuries of Thracian culture, with more than 500 art works dating back to the Copper Age. The 1979 show "Greek Art of the Aegean Islands" included 191 pieces, of which 46 came from the Met and a similar number from the Louvre. The remainder came from several different museums in Greece, including the largest known Cycladic sculpture, dating to 2700 to 2300 BCE, on loan from the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. A 1985 exhibition based on his research, "The Amasis Painter and his World: Vase Painting in Sixth Century B.C. Athens," included 65 works of a single artist who created his pottery 2,500 years before, the first to document the history of the work of a single craftsman from that ancient period as a one-man show.
Bothmer's numerous published works in the field include the 1957 Amazons in Greek Art, Ancient Art From New York Private Collections and An Inquiry Into the Forgery of the Etruscan Terracotta Warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, both published in 1961, Greek Vase Painting: an Introduction in 1972, his 1985 book The Amasis Painter and His World: Vase-Painting in Sixth-Century B.C. Athens, his 1991 book Glories of the Past: Ancient Art from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Collection, and in 1992, Euphronios, peintre: Actes de la journee d'etude organisee par l'Ecole du Louvre et le Departement des antiquites grecques, etrusques de l'Ecole du Louvre . He also contributed in 1983 to Wealth of the Ancient World , Development of the Attic Black-Figure, Revised Edition in 1986, and a wide variety of other publications.
Bothmer took a faculty position in 1965 at the Institute of Fine Arts, the nation's top-ranked graduate program in art history, according to the National Research Council's 1994 study.
Bothmer spoke and wrote seven languages: German; English; French; Italian; Latin; and Modern and Ancient Greek.
Awards and citations
Bothmer was a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, the French order established in 1802. It is the highest decoration in France.Bothmer was elected in 1988 to the Institue de France, the French learned society founded in 1795. He was a member of its Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Only two Americans can be in it at any one time.
Bothmer was elected a member of The Académie française as an Associé, in 1997. The Académie comprises forty members, known as les immortels. New members are elected by the members of the Académie itself. The Académie Française, also known as the French Academy, is the principal French council for matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII.
He was also an honorary fellow of Wadham College, and the recipient of several honorary doctorates.
Complementing his career as a curator and an academic, he served on the Art Advisory Council of the International Foundation for Art Research.
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Artifact origin controversy
Law enforcement and some archaeologists now believe that several of von Bothmer's many acquisitions of pottery fragments had illicit origins. Pieces of an Attic kylix were acquired over a 16-year period from a series of buyers, with some fragments acquired from Bothmer that completed the piece and allowed it to be fully reassembled. Prosecutors cite the improbability of being able to collect so many shards from the same artifact from disparate sources, and the fact that von Bothmer personally knew the seller of each shard of pottery that was later combined to restore the Kylix.List of publications
1941“Greek Pottery from Tell en-Nasbeh,” Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research 83 25-30.
1944
Amazons in Greek Art, Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1944.
“The Painters of ‘Tyrrhenian’ Vases,” AJA 48 161-70.
1946
Review of H. Bloesch, Antike Kunst in der Schweiz; Fünfzig Meisterwerke aus dem klassischen Altertum in öffentlichem und privatem Besitz, in AJA 50 495-97.
1947
“Greek Pottery,” in C.C. McCown ed., Tell en-Nasbeh; Excavated under the Direction of the late William Frederic Badé 175-78, 304.
“An Amphora of the Polyphemus Group,” BMMA 5 no. 5 131-35.
“The Taleides Amphora,” BMMA 5 no. 9 221-26.
1948
“An Attic Black-figured Dinos,” BMFA 46 no. 264 42-48.
1949
“The Classical Contribution to Western Civilization,” BMMA 7 no. 8 205-19.
“Recent Accessions of Greek Terracotta Vases,” BMMA 8 no. 3 91-96.
“The Arming of Achilles,” BMFA 47 no. 270 84-90.
1950
Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities: An Exhibition from the Collection of Walter Cummings Baker, Esq., Held at the Century Association, New York, May 17 to September 25, 1950.
Review of B. Neutsch, G. Hafner, and H. Luschey, Die Welt der Griechen; im Bilde der Originale der Heidelberger Universitätssammlung : Katalog der Jubiläumsausstellung zur 100-Jahr-Feier der Sammlungen des Archäologischen Instituts Heidelberg im Sommersemester 1948, in AJA 54 282-83.
Review of E. Kunze, Neue Meisterwerke griechischer Kunst aus Olympia, in AJA 54 283.
Review of D.K. Hill, Catalogue of Classical Bronze Sculpture in the Walters Art Gallery, in The Classical Weekly 44 no. 4 58-59.
1951
“Attic Black-figured Pelikai,” JHS 71 40-47.
“Enkaustes Agalmaton,” BMMA 9 no. 6 156-61.
Review of W. Schmalenbach, Griechische Vasenbilder, in AJA 55 117.
Review of J.W. Graham, Black-figure and Red-figure Greek Pottery, in AJA 55 433.
1952
“Greek Sculpture,” in E.V. McLoughlin ed., The Book of Knowledge; The Children's Encyclopedia that Leads to Love of Learning 2747-756.
“Some Etruscan Vases,” BMMA 10 no. 5 145-49.
Review of E. Bielefeld, Amazonomachia: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Motivwanderung in der antiken Kunst, in Gnomon 24 197-200.
Review of E. Buschor, Frühgriechische Jünglinge, in AJA 56 102-103.
Review of H. Kähler, Pergamon, in AJA 56 103.
Review of K.F. Johansen, The Attic Grave-reliefs of the Classical Period; An Essay in Interpretation, in AJA 56 160.
Review of K. Schefold, Griechische Plastik I: Die grossen Bildhauer des archaischen Athen, in The Classical Weekly 45 108-109.
1953
“Greek Vases Lost and Found,” in G.E. Mylonas ed., Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson on His Seventieth Birthday 2 135-38.
“Katapygōn, katapygaina,” Hesperia 22 215-24.
“The Tawny Hippalektryon,” BMMA 11 no. 5 132-36.
“Four Attic Grave Reliefs,” BMMA 11 no. 7 186-89.
“A Panathenaic Amphora,” BMMA 12 no. 2 52-56.
Review of D.M. Robinson, Excavations at Olynthus XIII: Vases Found in 1934 and 1938, in American Journal of Philology 74 216-17.
Review of W.R. Agard, Classical Myths in Sculpture, in AJA 57 40.
Review of G. Hafner, CVA Karlsruhe 1, in AJA 57 41-42.
Review of C. Clairmont, Das Parisurteil in der antiken Kunst, in AJA 57 138-40.
Review of A. Rumpf, Archäologie 1: Einleitung historischer Überblick, in AJA 57 291.
Review of H. Payne and G. Mackworth-Young, Archaic Marble Sculpture from the Acropolis: A Photographic Catalogue, in AJA 57 293.
Review of E. Bielefeld, Zur griechischen Vasenmalerei des 6. bis 4. Jahrhunderts vor Christus, in AJA 57 296.
1954
“Recent Accessions of Greek and Etruscan Art,” BMMA 13 no. 2 60-64.
Review of F. Brommer, Herakles: Die zwölf Taten des Helden in antiker Kunst und Literatur, in AJA 58 63-64.
Review of R. Lullies, CVA Munich 3, in AJA 58 344-45.
1955
“Two Oltos Vases in New York,” AJA 59 157-58.
“Bronze Hydriai,” BMMA 13 no. 6 193-200.
Review of F. Villard, CVA Louvre 10, in AJA 59 67-68.
Review of Ancient Art in American Private Collections: A Loan Exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, December 28, 1954-February 15, 1955, Arranged in Honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Archaeological
Institute of America, in AJA 59 192-93.
Review of R.M. Cook, CVA British Museum 8, in AJA 59 248-49.
Review of K. Schauenburg, CVA Heidelberg 1, in AJA 59 343.
1956
“Les collections de vases antiques aux Etats-Unis,” in C. Dugas and H. Metzger eds., Colloque international sur le Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum; Lyon, 3-5 juillet 1956 35-41.
“Notes on the Mural Paintings from Boscoreale,” AJA 60 171-72.
“Two Etruscan Vases by the Paris Painter,” BMMA 14 no. 5 127-32.
Review of R. Lullies ed., Neue Beiträge zur klassischen Altertumwissenschaft: Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Bernhard Schweitzer, in AJA 60 303-304.
“Additional Corrections to E. Vanderpool, Review of J.D. Beazley, Attic Black-figure Vase-painters,” in AJA 60 305-306.
Review of F. Prat Puig, Sala de arte antiguo; Egipto, Grecia, Roma: coleccion Conde de Lagunillas, in AJA 60 458-59.
Review of C. Blümel, Antike Kunstwerke, in Deutsche Literaturzeitung 77 cols. 762-63.
Review of M. Pallottino and H. and I. Jucker, Art of the Etruscans, and S. von Cles-Reden, The Buried People: A Study of the Etruscan World, trans.
C.M. Woodhouse, in New York Times Book Review, January 29, 1956.
1957
Amazons in Greek Art.
“Greek Vases from the Hearst Collection,” BMMA 15 no. 7 165-80.
“A Lekythos by the Pan Painter,” Bulletin of the Rhode Island School of Design 43 no. 4 1-3.
Ancient Vases, privately printed checklist, circa 1957.
Review of F. Brommer, Vasenlisten zur griechischen Heldensage: Herakles, Theseus, Aigeus, Erechtheus, Erichthonios, Kekrops, Kodros, Perseus, Bellerophon, Meleager, Peleus, in AJA 61 103-10.
Review of H. Comfort, Attic and South Italian Painted Vases at Haverford College, in AJA 61 309-10.
Review of S. Karouzou, The Amasis Painter, in Gnomon 29 538-41.
1958
“Greek Marble Statues,” BMMA 16 no. 6 187-92. “Appendix” to M. Farnsworth and H. Wisely, “Fifth Century Intentional Red Glaze,” AJA 62 156-73, p. 173. 1959
“The Camtar Painter,” AntK 2 5-9.
“Notes on a New Edition of Michaelis: Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, Part Three: 1,” AJA 63 139-66.
“A Panathenaic Prize Amphora,” Dartmouth Alumni Magazine 51 no. 9 24-26.
“Additions to the Collections: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 89, in BMMA 18 no. 2 57-58 .
Review of A.D. Ure, CVA Reading 1, in AJA 63 309-10.
Review of M. Robertson, Greek Painting 40-41, 60.
1960
“New Vases by the Amasis Painter,” AntK 3 71-80.
“Additions to the Collections: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 90, in BMMA 19 no. 2 44-45, 60 .
Review of A. Greifenhagen, CVA Mannheim 1, in AJA 64 99-100.
1961
Ancient Art from New York Private Collections: Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 17, 1959-February 28, 1960.
An Inquiry into the Forgery of the Etruscan Terracotta Warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art Papers no. 11 .“Newly Acquired Bronzes: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman,” BMMA 19 no. 5 133-51.
“Greek Vases in the Recent Accessions Room,” BMMA 19 no. 5 152-55.
“Etruscan, Greek, and Roman: Sculptures in the Recent Accessions Room,” BMMA 19 no. 6 181-84.
“Additions to the Collections: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 91, in BMMA 20 no. 2 52, 67 .
Review of R.V. Schoder, Masterpieces of Greek Art, in AJA 65 415-17.
1962
“Five Attic Black-figured Lip-cups,” AJA 66 255-58.
“Painted Greek Vases,” BMMA 21 no. 1 1-11.
“A Gold Libation Bowl,” BMMA 21 no. 4 154-66.
“Reports of the Departments: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 92, in BMMA 21 no. 2 76-77.
Review of F. Eichler, CVA Vienna 2, in AJA 66 100.
1963
Attic Black-figured Amphorae, CVA New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 3.
“Reports of the Departments: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 93, in BMMA 22 no. 2 71-72.
Review of A. Boëthius et al., Etruscan Culture, Land, and People, New York Times Book Review, September 22,1963, 7.
1964
MMA Guide to the Collections: Greek and Roman Art.
“The Head of an Archaic Greek Kouros,” AA 1964, cols. 615-27.
“Lids by Andokides,” Berliner Museen 14 38-42.
Review of S. Dimitriu, Petre Alexandrescu, et al., CVA Bucarest 1, in AJA 70 388-89.
1965
“Four Bronze Hydriai in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” AJA 69 165.
“Reports of the Departments: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 95, in BMMA 24 no. 2 62-63.
Review of M.-L. Bernhard, CVA Warsaw 3, in AJA 69 281-82.
Review of E. Diehl, Die Hydria: Formgeschichte und Verwendung im Kult des Altertums, in Gnomon 37 599-608.
1967
“The Case of the Morgan Centaur,” Archaeology 20 221-22.
“Reports of the Departments: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 97, in BMMA 26 no. 2 73-75.
Review of J. Boardman and J.W. Hayes, Excavations at Tocra 1963-1965: The Archaic Deposits I, in AJA 71 317.
Review of B. Philippaki, The Attic Stamnos, in Gnomon 39 813-19.
1968
“An Amphora by Exekias,” Bulletin du Musée hongrois des Beaux-Arts 31 17-25.
“Reports of the Departments: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 98, in BMMA 27 no. 2 101-103.
Review of K. Stähler, Eine unbekannte Pelike des Eucharidesmalers, in AJA 72 400.
1969
“Elbows Out,” RA 1969 3-15.
“Six Hydriai,” AntK 12 26-29.
“Euboean Black-figure in New York,” MMAJ 2 27-44.
“Aspects of a Collection,” BMMA 27 no. 10 425-36.
Greek Vases and Modern Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss, exh. checklist .
“Plate,” BMMA 28 no. 3 149 .
“Reports of the Departments: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 99, in BMMA 28 no. 2 77-78.
Review of B. Segall, Zur griechischen Goldschmiedekunst des vierten Jahrhunderts v. Chr.: Eine griechische Schmuckgruppe im Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, in Archaeology 22 332-33.
1970
“Sir John Beazley,” Oxford Magazine, June 12, 1970, 299-302.
“The Case of the Dunedin Painter: New Evidence,” California Studies in Classical Antiquity 3 35-43.
Contribution to In Tribute to Suzanne E. Chapman.
“Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 100, in BMMA 29 no. 2 82-83.
Review of F.G. Lo Porto, CVA Turin 2, in AJA 74 114-15.
1971
“Three Vases by the Amasis Painter,” Madrider Mitteilungen 12 123-30.
“Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 101 19 .
Review of G. Trias de Arribas, Ceramicas griegas de la Peninsula Ibérica, in AJA 75 104-105.
1972
Fouilles de Xanthos IV: Les céramiques archaïques et classiques de l’Acropole lycienne .
“Greek Vase Painting: An Introduction,” BMMA 31 no. 1 3-68 .
“A Neck-amphora in the Collection of Walter Bareiss: II. The Ancient Repairs,” AJA 76 9-11.
“A Unique Pair of Attic Vases,” RA 1972, 83-92.
“Outstanding Recent Accessions,” BMMA 30 no. 4 206.“Departmental Accessions: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 102 43-44 .
Review of F. Palange, CVA Como 1, in AJA 76 339.
Review of L. Vlad Borelli, CVA Orvieto, Museo Claudio Faina 1, in AJA 76 339-40.
1973
Contributions to H. Hoffmann et al., CVA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1.
“Departmental Accessions: Greek and Roman Art,” MMAJ 7 157, 166-67.
“Departmental Accessions: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 103 43-44 .
Review of P. Mingazzini, Catalogo dei Vasi della Collezione Augusto Castellani 2, in AJA 77 352-53.
1974
Entries in O.W. Muscarella ed., Ancient Art: The Norbert Schimmel Collection, exh. cat. .
“Two Bronze Hydriai in Malibu,” GettyMusJ 1 15-22.
Greek Vase Painting: An Introduction .
“Departmental Accessions: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 104 45-46 .
1975
MMA Guide to the Collections: Greek and Roman Art, 3rd ed..
“A Curator's Choice,” in T.P.F. Hoving ed., The Chase, The Capture: Collecting at the Metropolitan 111-22.
Contribution to From the Lands of the Scythians: Ancient Treasures from the Museums of the U.S.S.R., 3000 B.C.-100 B.C., exh. cat. .
“Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Notable Acquisitions 1965-1975 114-31.
“Departmental Accessions: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 105 60-61.
Review of J. Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases: A Handbook, in The Art Bulletin 57 120-22.
1976
Attic Black-figured Neck-amphorae, CVA New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 4 .
“The Babuino Bronzes,” in L. Bonfante and H. von Heintze eds., In Memoriam Otto J. Brendel: Essays in Archaeology and the Humanities 155-58.
“Der Euphronioskrater in New York,” AA 1976, 485-512.
General preface for the series Vasi antichi dipinti del Vaticano: La Collezione Astarita nel Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, included, inappropriately, in vol. III of the series : A.D. Trendall, Vasi Italioti ed Etruschi a Figure rosse e di età ellenistica.
“Departmental Accessions: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 106 45-46.
Review of F. Eichler and W. Oberleitner, CVA Vienna 3, in AJA 80 210-11.
Review of J. Boardman, CVA Oxford 3, in AJA 80 316-17.
Review of H. Mommsen, Der Affecter, in AJA 80 433-38.
Review of S. Matheson Burke, J.J. Pollitt, et al., Greek Vases at Yale, exh. cat., in The Art Bulletin 58 614-15.
1977
“The Struggle for the Tripod,” in U. Höckmann and A. Krug eds., Festschrift für Frank Brommer 51-63.
Entries in W. Hornbostel ed., Kunst der Antike: Schätze aus norddeutschem Privatbesitz, exh. cat..
“Les vases de la collection Campana,” Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France 27 213-21.
“An Etruscan Bronze in New York,” MonPiot 61 45-59.
“Departmental Accessions: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 107 52-53.
1978
“History of the Greek And Roman Department”, in Antichnoe iskusstvo iz muzeia Metropoliten: Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki, exh. cat..
Contribution to M. True et al., CVA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2.
“Curatorial Reports: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 108 44-45.
Review of A. Lezzi-Hafter, Der Schuwalow-Maler, in AJA 82 124-28.
1979
Greek Art of the Aegean Islands, exh. cat..
Entries in W.G. Moon and L. Berge eds., Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections exh. cat..
“A Bronze Oinochoe in New York,” in G. Kopcke and M.B. Moore eds., Studies in Classical Art and Archaeology: A Tribute to Peter Heinrich von Blanckenhagen 63-67.
“Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Notable Acquisitions, 1975-1979 13-16.
“Curatorial Reports: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 109 33-34.
Review of R.-M. Becker, Formen attischer Peliken, in AJA 83 361-62.
1980
“The Affecter Amphora,” Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 38 94-107.
“Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Notable Acquisitions, 1979-1980 13-16.
“Curatorial Reports: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 110 36-37.
1981
“The Death of Sarpedon,” in S.L. Hyatt ed., The Greek Vase: Papers Based on Lectures Presented to a Symposium Held at Hudson Valley Community College at Troy, New York in April 1979 63-80.
“Observations of a Curator of Greek and Roman Art,” Convegni Internazionali per la Difesa delle Opere d’Arte appartenenti alle Nazioni e alle Religioni: Firenze, 1971 e 1975 109-12.
“Les Trésors de l’orfèverie de la Grèce orientale au Métropolitan Museum de New York,” CRAI 1981, 194-207.
“Amasis, Amasidos,” GettyMusJ 9 1-4.
“A Cup in Berne,” Hefte des Archäologischen Seminars der Universität Bern 7 37-43.
“A New Kleitias Fragment from Egypt,” AntK 24 66-67.
“Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Notable Acquisitions 1980-1981 11-16.
“Curatorial Reports: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 111 35-37.
Review of A.W. Johnston, Trademarks on Greek Vases, in AJA 85 352-55.
1982
“Notes on Makron,” in D.C. Kurtz and B.A. Sparkes eds., The Eye of Greece: Studies in the Art of Athens 29-52.
The Search for Alexander: Supplement to the Catalogue .
Entries in The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art, exh. cat. 184-91.
Entries in I.E. Rubin ed., The Guennol Collection 2.
“Greek and Roman Art,” Notable Acquisitions 1981-1982 10-12.
“Curatorial Reports: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 112 31-32.
Review of J. Burow, CVA Tübingen 3, in Gnomon 54 93-95.
Review of C. Dunant and L. Kahil, CVA Geneva 2, in Gnomon 54 159-61.
Review of H. Mommsen, CVA Berlin 5, in Gnomon 54 315-17.
1983
“Walter Bareiss as a Collector,” in Greek Vases: Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection, text by J. Frel and M. True, exh. cat. 1-3.
“Notes on Collectors of Vases,” and entries, in J.M. Cody ed., Wealth of the Ancient World: The Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt Collections, exh. cat. 37-44, 66-69.
“Echoes from Egypt,” in H. De Meulenaere and L. Limme eds., Artibus Aegypti: Studia in Honorem Bernardi V. Bothmer 15-23.
“The Execution of the Drawings,” in D.C. Kurtz, The Berlin Painter 6-8.
“Observations on the Subject Matter of South Italian Vases,” Arts in Virginia 23 no. 3 28-43.
“Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Notable Acquisitions, 1982-1983 8-9.
“Curatorial Reports: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 113 34-35.
Review of L. Burn and R. Glynn, Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV 2 and Paralipomena, in Gnomon 55 567-69.
1984
A Greek and Roman Treasury, BMMA 42 no. 1.
“Curatorial Reports: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 114 34-35.
Review of E. Böhr, Der Schaukelmaler, in AJA 88 81-84.
Review of G. Pianu, Ceramiche etrusche sovradipinte: Materiali del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Tarquinia 3, in The Classical World 77 no. 3 199.
1985
The Amasis Painter and His World: Vase-painting in Sixth-century B.C. Athens, exh. cat. .
Bits and Myths: Greek Vase Fragments and Their Meaning; from the Collection of Dietrich von Bothmer, exh. cat..
“Beazley the Teacher,” in D.C. Kurtz ed., Beazley and Oxford: Lectures Delivered in Wolfson College, Oxford, 28 June 1985 5-17.
“Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Notable Acquisitions 1984-1985 6-7.
“Curatorial Reports: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 115 37-38.
Review of K. Hitzl, Die Enstehung und Entwicklung des Volutenkraters von den frühesten Anfängen bis zur Ausprägung des kanonischen Stils in der attisch schwarzfigurigen Vasenmalerei, in Gnomon 57 66-71.
Review of B. von Freytag et al. eds., Praestant Interna: Festschrift für Ulrich Hausmann, in AJA 89 361-63.
1986
Co-editor with M.B. Moore of J.D. Beazley, The Development of Attic Black-figure, rev. ed..
Collaboration with M.B. Moore and M.Z. Pease Philippides, The Athenian Agora XXIII: Attic Black-figured Pottery.
“Observations on Proto–Volute-kraters, in M. Del Chiaro and W.R. Biers eds., Corinthiaca: Studies in Honor of Darrell A. Amyx 107-16.
“An Inscribed Red-figured Lekythos,” in E. Böhr and W. Martini eds., Studien zur Mythologie und Vasenmalerei: Konrad Schauenburg zum 65. Geburtstag am 16. April 1986 65-70.
“Lids by the Amasis Painter,” in H.A.G. Brijder, A.A. Drukker, and C.W. Neeft eds., Enthousiasmos: Essays on Greek and Related Pottery Presented to J.M. Hemelrijk 83-91.
“An Archaic Red-figured Kylix,” GettyMusJ 14 5-20.
“Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Recent Acquisitions: A Selection 1985-1986 8-9.
“Curatorial Reports: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 116 28-29.
1987
Greek Vase Painting, rev. ed. .
Introduction, and “Antiquities Donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” in E.S. Hall ed., Antiquities from the Collection of Christos G. Bastis ix, 313-27.
“Ajax et Cassandre par le Peintre de Princeton,” AntK 30 58-68
“Greek Vase-Painting: Two Hundred Years of Connoisseurship,” in Papers on the Amasis Painter and His World 184-204.
“Euphronios and Memnon? Observations on a Red-figured Fragment,” MMAJ 22 5-11.
“Curatorial Reports: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 117 30-31.
Review of H.A.G. Brijder, Siana Cups I and Komast Cups, in Gnomon 59 716-21.
Review of E.R. Williams, The Archaeological Collection of the Johns Hopkins University, in AJA 91 350-51.
1988
“Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Recent Acquisitions: A Selection 1987-1988 8-9.
“Curatorial Reports: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 118 28-29.
Review of A.-F. Laurens, Société Archéologique de Montpellier; Catalogue des Collections II: Céramique attique et apparentée, in AJA 92 140-42.
Review of E. Böhr, CVA Tübingen 4, in Gnomon 60 180-82.
1989
Entries in K. Hamma ed., The Dechter Collection of Greek Vases, exh. cat..
“Armorial Adjuncts,” MMAJ 24 65-70.
“Greek and Roman Art,” Recent Acquisitions: A Selection 1988-1989, in BMMA 47 no. 2 8-9.
“Curatorial Reports: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 119 28-29.
1990
Editor, and author, Glories of the Past: Ancient Art from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Collection, exh. cat..
“Euphronios: An Attic Vase-painter's View of the Human Body,” Dialexeis 1986-1989 25-42.
“Euphronios: les nouveaux témoignages,” and entries, in A. Pasquier and M. Denoyelle eds., Euphronios, peintre a Athènes au VIe siècle avant J.-C., exh. cat. 17-23.
“Euphronios,” CRAI 1990, 621-28.
“J.D. Beazley,” in W.W. Briggs and W.M. Calder eds., Classical Scholarship: A Biographical Encyclopedia 1-6.
Preface to R. Olmos ed., Vasos Griegos: Colección Condes de Lagunillas 6-7.
“Greek and Roman Art,” Recent Acquisitions: A Selection 1989-1990, in BMMA 48 no. 2 11.
“Curatorial Reports: Greek and Roman Art,” MMA Annual Report 120 25.
1991
“Etruria and American Collecting: The Early Years,” and entries, in F. Roncalli ed., Antichità dall’Umbria a New York, exh. cat. 47-49.
1992
“The Subject Matter of Euphronios,” in M. Denoyelle ed., Euphronios peintre 13-32.
“Amasis,” Enciclopedia dell’arte antica, classica e orientale, secondo supplemento, vol. I, 203-204.
“Souvenirs d’un conservateur des vases grecs,” in A.-F. Laurens and K. Pomian eds., L’Anticomanie: La collection d’antiquités au 18e et 19e siècles 348-51.
Review of B. Freyer-Schauenburg, CVA Kiel 1, in Gnomon 64 184-85.
Review of B. Fellmann, CVA Munich 10-11, in Gnomon 64 275.
1993
“The Greeks and the Sea as Reflected in Attic Vase-painting,” in S. Vrionis ed., The Greeks and the Sea 31-69.
“Vertical Handle from a Hydria,” Recent Acquisitions: A Selection 1992-1993, in BMMA 51 no. 2 14.
1994
“Sarpedon,” LIMC VII, 698-700.
1995
Preface to H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picón, and G.D. Scott III, Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art 11-14.
“Hydria,” Recent Acquisitions: A Selection 1994-1995, in BMMA 53 no. 2 8.
Review of M.F. Kilmer, Greek Erotica on Attic Red-Figure Vases, in Classical Journal 91 no. 1 82-86.
1997
“Fragmentary Red-figured Psykter Attributed to Smikros,” Recent Acquisitions: A Selection 1996-1997, in BMMA 55 no. 2 12.
1998
“La Villa Grecque Kérylos: Domaine d’un Collectionneur,” CRAI 1998, 527-53.
“Forgeries of Greek Vases,” Minerva, March-April 1998, 8-17.
2000
“The Quest for Lykaon, Son of Ares and Pyrene,” Homère chez Calvin: Figures de l’hellénisme à Genève, Mélanges Olivier Reverdin, exh. cat. 299-303.
Review of S. Mayer-Emmerling and U. Vedder, CVA Frankfurt 4, in Gnomon 72, 85-88.
Review of E. Kunze-Götte, Der Kleophrades-Maler unter Malern schwarzfiguriger Amphoren: Eine Werkstattstudie, in Gnomon 72 156-61.
2001
“Euphronios,” in R. Vollkommer and D. Vollkommer-Glökler eds., Künstlerl lexikon der Antike I 231-56.
“Oltos, Andocidès et l’expérimentation de la technique à figures rouges,” MonPiot 80 35-56.
2002
“Naturalisme et illusion: les ‘Vases grecs et étrusques’ d’Alexandre-Isodore Lery de Barde,” La Revue du Louvre et des musées de France 2002 no. 2 33-42.
2004
“Smikros,” in R. Vollkommer and D. Vollkommer-Glökler eds., Künstlerl exikon der Antike II xxx-xxx.