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Arthur Stanley Riggs
1879–1952
Best remembered for lively biographies of Titian and Velázquez, this American writer moved easily between art history, journalism, travel writing, and naval history. His career brought together a reporter’s eye for detail and a historian’s love of the past.
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Vistas in Sicily
by Arthur Stanley Riggs
About the author
Born on April 8, 1879, Arthur Stanley Riggs was an American writer, editor, and historian. Early in his career he worked as a reporter for The New York Times, and over the years he wrote on a wide range of subjects, from war reporting and travel to biography and history.
He is especially noted for his books on the painters Titian and Velázquez, which helped introduce major figures of European art to general readers. Riggs also served in the Naval Auxiliary Force in 1898 and later in the U.S. Naval Reserve, and that experience shaped some of his later historical work.
Riggs died in Washington, D.C., on November 8, 1952. Papers related to his life and work were preserved by the Library of Congress, suggesting the lasting documentary value of his writing and research.