Donna Carol Kurtz

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Donna Kurtz is an American classicist specializing in Greek art. Born in

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lekythos.

After the death of Sir John Beazley in 1970, Kurtz organised his books, papers, notebooks, drawings and photographs to form the Beazley Archive,[2] initially kept at the Ashmolean Museum, and was named Beazley Archivist, a chair created for her. The post is connected to Wolfson College, where she remains a fellow. As professor of classical art at the university, she lectured and tutored until her retirement in 2011.

Her scholarly output, especially in the first decades of her career, focussed on

Greek pottery. Collaborations with Sir John Boardman on Greek Burial Customs[3] and Brian Sparkes (edd.) on The Eye of Greece: studies in the art of Athens[4] expanded the topics on which she wrote. Her interest in the work of Beazley produced several articles and a posthumous collaboration in The Berlin Painter,[5] which uses Beazley's drawings as the basis of study of anatomy and connoisseurship. From 2000, with the publication of The reception of classical art in Britain: an Oxford story of plaster casts from the antique[6] and the Reception of classical art: an introduction,[7]
she has moved into the history of collections more fully.

Digital projects

From 1979, the Beazley Archive was digitized, in collaboration with IBM and others. Put on-line in 1998, it was one of the earliest large data-sets available; as the Classical Art Research Centre (CARC) it now contains over 100,000 records.

In 2000, Kurtz launched CLAROS, the Classical Art Research Online Services,

semantic web technologies, in collaboration with the Oxford e-Research Centre (where she is now a senior researcher) and the Oxford Internet Institute (where she is now a research associate); the site Archived 11 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine
went live in 2011. It includes not only the original data from the Beazley Archive but also records of eastern ceramics, eastern and western sculpture, gems, drawings and photographs.

From 2013, Kurtz has helmed the Oxford Cultural Heritage Programme, a collaboration between several divisions, incorporating conservation, commerce and law.

References

  1. ^ Oxford, Clarendon Press 1975.
  2. ^ "Classical Art Research Centre - Beazley Archive".
  3. ^ London, Thames & Hudson 1971.
  4. ^ Cambridge, CUP 1982.
  5. ^ Oxford, Clarendon Press 1983.
  6. ^ Oxford, Beazley Archive: Archaeopress.
  7. ^ Oxford, Archaeopress 2004.
  8. ^ "CLAROS: About". Archived from the original on 9 July 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
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