Paul Zanker Explained

Paul Zanker
Birth Date:7 February 1937
Occupation:Professor
Main Interests:Hellenistic and Roman periods

Paul Zanker (born 7 February 1937) is the professor of Storia dell’Arte Antica at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.[1] Previously Zanker was professor of classical archaeology at the University of Munich (1976–2002) and the University of Göttingen (1972–1976).[2] He is a noted expert on Roman art and archaeology and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, of the Academia Europaea, of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, the Pontifical Academy of Archaeology and of the German Archaeological Institute. From 1990 to 1991 he was the Sather professor of the University of California at Berkeley. Zanker is head of the German Commission for the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.

Selected publications

Publications in German:

Publications in English:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Paul Zanker . . 23 October 2012 . New York University . 1 August 2021.
  2. Zanker, P. (1988) The power of images in the age of Augustus. Translated by Alan Shapiro. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press (Jerome Lectures 16), cover notes.