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Gloria Ferrari Pinney

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Gloria Ferrari Pinney
BornJune 2, 1941
Bologna
DiedSeptember 18, 2023
OccupationArt historian

Gloria Ferrari Pinney (June 2, 1941 – September 18, 2023) was an Italian-born art historian and college professor. She was a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar, and a professor at Harvard University, Bryn Mawr College, the University of Chicago, and Wilson College in Pennsylvania.

Early life and education

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Ferrari was born in Bologna. She earned her Laurea at the Sapienza University of Rome, and completed doctoral work at the University of Cincinnati in 1976.[1] Her dissertation was titled "Prolegomena to a Study of Archaic Attic Red-Figure" (1976), completed under advisor Cedric G. Boulter.[2]

Career

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Pinney was a professor at Wilson College beginning in 1976,[3] at Bryn Mawr College from 1990 to 1993,[4] at the University of Chicago from 1993 to 1998,[5] and at Harvard University from 1998 until she retired in 2003.[6] She organized exhibitions at museums including the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago and the Allentown Art Museum.[7][8] She was described in a 2012 review by Aaron Tugendhaft as "a powerful voice championing the linguistic approach to Greek iconography."[9] A festschrift was assembled to mark her 80th birthday in 2021.[10]

Pinney held a Fulbright scholarship from 1965 to 1966, to participate in archaeological excavations in Italy.[3] She won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993.[11] In 2001, she received a fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.[12] She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2003. In 2004, she won the Wiseman Book Award from the Archaeological Institute of America.[13] She also held fellowships and other awards from the American Academy in Rome, the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Gallery of Art's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.[14][15]

Publications

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Pinney's research was published in academic journals including The Journal of Hellenic Studies,[16] American Journal of Archaeology,[17] Harvard Studies in Classical Philology,[18] Metis,[19] Revue Archéologique,[20] Metropolitan Museum Journal, and Classical Antiquity.[21] She was on the editorial advisory board of the journal Hesperia.[22]

  • Il commercio dei sarcofagi asiatici (1966)[23]
  • "The Nonage of the Berlin Painter" (1981)[17]
  • "Herakles at the Ends of the Earth" (1981, with Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway)[16]
  • "Achilles Lord of Scythia" (1983)
  • "Money-Bags" (1986)[24]
  • "Eye-Cup" (1986)[20]
  • Materiali del Museo Archeologico di Tarquinia XI: I vasi attici a figure rosse del periodo arcaico (1988)
  • "Felicior Augusto: Limes Phalerae and the Ravenna Relief" (1989)
  • "Héraclès, Pisistratus and the Panathenaea" (1994)[19]
  • "Fugitive Nudes: The Woman Athlete" (1995)[25]
  • "The End of Aponia" (1995)[26]
  • "Meaningful Figures" (1996)[27]
  • ""Figures in the Text: Metaphors and Riddles in the Agamemnon" (1997)[28]
  • "The Ilioupersis in Athens" (2000)[18]
  • ""The Ancient Temple on the Acropolis at Athens" (2002)[29]
  • Figures of Speech: Men and Maidens in Ancient Greece (2002)[30]
  • "Myth and Genre on Athenian Vases" (2003)[21]
  • "What kind of rite of passage was the Ancient Greek wedding?" (2003)[31]
  • "Architectural Space as Metaphor in the Greek Sanctuary" (2006)[32]
  • Alcman and the Cosmos of Sparta (2008)[33]

Personal life

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Ferrari married Kentucky architect Paul Martin Pinney Jr. in 1966.[34][35] They had a daughter, Antonia, and later divorced. Her ex-husband was killed in 1997.[36] Ferrari had two grandchildren, Alex and Leo Cuadra, the sons of her daughter, Dr. Antonia Pinney, a physician. Gloria Ferrari died in 2023, at the age of 82.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Slatkin, Laura M. (2023-10-01). "In Memory of Gloria Ferrari Pinney, 1941-2023". Classical Continuum. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  2. ^ Pinney, Gloria Ferrari (1976). "Prolegomena to a Study of Archaic Attic Red-Figure" (PDF). ProQuest (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cincinnati). Retrieved 2023-12-05.
  3. ^ a b "Gloria F. Pinney appointed to faculty". The News-Chronicle. 1976-03-05. p. 18. Retrieved 2023-12-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Harvard Professor Uses Art to Unlock Secrets of Ancient Society". University of Arkansas News. March 9, 2012. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  5. ^ "Gloria Pinney". Scholars at Harvard Classics. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  6. ^ "Gloria Ferrari Pinney: 1941–2023". Harvard University, Department of the Classics. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  7. ^ Museum, Allentown Art; Ferrari, Gloria (1979). Aspects of Ancient Greece: An Exhibition Organized by the Allentown Art Museum with the Cooperation of Gloria Ferrari Pinney and Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway ... Allentown Art Museum, September 16 Through December 30, 1979. The Museum.
  8. ^ Hofammann, Albert (1979-09-16). "The Glory of Greece in Allentown". The Morning Call. p. 125. Retrieved 2023-12-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Tugendhaft, Aaron (2012). "Review of The Mythology of Kingship in Neo-Assyrian Art, Mehmet-Ali Ataç". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 132 (2): 312–314. doi:10.7817/jameroriesoci.132.2.0312. ISSN 0003-0279. JSTOR 10.7817/jameroriesoci.132.2.0312.
  10. ^ "A festive gathering in honor of Gloria Ferrari Pinney's 80th birthday". The Center for Hellenic Studies. Retrieved 2023-12-05.
  11. ^ "Gloria Ferrari Pinney". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  12. ^ "Gloria Ferrari Pinney | Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences". Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  13. ^ "James R. Wiseman Book Award". Archaeological Institute of America. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  14. ^ "In Memoriam: Gloria Ferrari Pinney". Society for Classical Studies. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  15. ^ "Notes on the Arts". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1990-09-12. p. 67. Retrieved 2023-12-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ a b Pinney, Gloria Ferrari; Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo (November 1981). "Herakles at the Ends of the Earth". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 101: 141–144. doi:10.2307/629856. ISSN 2041-4099. JSTOR 629856.
  17. ^ a b Pinney, Gloria Ferrari (1981-04-01). "The Nonage of the Berlin Painter". American Journal of Archaeology. 85 (2): 145–158. doi:10.2307/505034. ISSN 0002-9114. JSTOR 505034.
  18. ^ a b Ferrari, Gloria (2000). "The Ilioupersis in Athens". Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. 100: 119–150. doi:10.2307/3185212. ISSN 0073-0688. JSTOR 3185212.
  19. ^ a b Ferrari, Gloria (1994). "Héraclès, Pisistratus and the Panathenaea". Mètis. Anthropologie des mondes grecs anciens. 9 (1): 219–226. doi:10.3406/metis.1994.1024.
  20. ^ a b Ferrari, Gloria (1986). "Eye-Cup". Revue Archéologique (1): 5–20. ISSN 0035-0737. JSTOR 41736328.
  21. ^ a b Ferrari, Gloria (2003-04-01). "Myth and Genre on Athenian Vases". Classical Antiquity. 22 (1): 37–54. doi:10.1525/ca.2003.22.1.37. ISSN 0278-6656.
  22. ^ "Hesperia Editorial Advisory Board". American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  23. ^ "Appointed to Wilson fine arts faculty". Public Opinion. 1976-03-06. p. 13. Retrieved 2023-12-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  24. ^ Pinney, Gloria Ferrari. (1986) "Money-Bags", American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 90, no. 2, pp. 218-218.
  25. ^ Pinney, Gloria Ferrari. "Fugitive Nudes: The Woman Athlete." American Journal of Archaeology 99 (1995): 303-4.
  26. ^ Ferrari, Gloria (January 1995). "The End of Aponia". Metropolitan Museum Journal. 30: 17–18. doi:10.2307/1512946. ISSN 0077-8958. JSTOR 1512946.
  27. ^ Pinney, G.F. (April 1996) "Meaningful figures" American Journal of Archaeology 100(2): 361-361.
  28. ^ Ferrari, Gloria (1997). "Figures in the Text: Metaphors and Riddles in the Agamemnon". Classical Philology. 92 (1): 1–45. doi:10.1086/449329. ISSN 0009-837X. JSTOR 270315.
  29. ^ Ferrari, Gloria (2002-01-01). "The Ancient Temple on the Acropolis at Athens". American Journal of Archaeology. 106 (1): 11–35. doi:10.2307/507187. ISSN 0002-9114. JSTOR 507187.
  30. ^ Ferrari, Gloria (2002-01-15). Figures of Speech: Men and Maidens in Ancient Greece. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-24436-5.
  31. ^ Ferrari, Gloria (2003), "What kind of rite of passage was the Ancient Greek wedding?", Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives, Routledge, doi:10.4324/9780203604397-13/kind-rite-passage-ancient-greek-wedding-gloria-ferrari (inactive 1 November 2024), ISBN 978-0-203-60439-7, retrieved 2023-12-05{{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
  32. ^ Turner, Mark (2006-10-26). The Artful Mind. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195306361.003.0012. ISBN 978-0-19-530636-1.
  33. ^ Ferrari, Gloria (2008). Alcman and the Cosmos of Sparta. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-66867-3.
  34. ^ "Ferrari-Pinney Betrothal Told". Lexington Herald-Leader. 1966-09-18. p. 32. Retrieved 2023-12-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  35. ^ "Ferrari-Pinney Marriage is Solemnized Wednesday, Dec. 14, in Rome, Italy". Lexington Herald-Leader. 1966-12-30. p. 14. Retrieved 2023-12-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  36. ^ Webster, Sarah (1997-11-05). "More than one sought in death of professor". Lexington Herald-Leader. pp. B1, B3. Retrieved 2023-12-05 – via Newspapers.com.
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