Contributors

Ruth Allen is Curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University. Her research interests include ancient ornament, engraved gemstones, female craft, and the legacy of classical art in contemporary practice.

Beth Cohen is an art historian specializing in ancient Greek art and classical reception in western art. Publications include the anthologies Not the Classical Ideal: Athens and the Construction of the Other in Greek Art (2000) and The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer’s Odyssey (1995). She served as guest curator of the exhibition The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Linda Merrill, Teaching Professor in Art History at Emory University, was formerly the curator of American art at the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, and the Margaret and Terry Stent Curator of American Art at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Dr. Merrill has published several books on Whistler and his contemporaries, including A Pot of Paint: Aestheticism on Trial in Whistler v. Ruskin (1993) and The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography (1998).