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Gisela M. A. (Gisela Marie Augusta) Richter
1882–1972
A pioneering classical archaeologist and art historian, she helped shape how generations of readers and museum visitors understood Greek and Roman sculpture. Her long career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art made her one of the best-known interpreters of ancient art in the English-speaking world.
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The Craft of Athenian Pottery An Investigation of the Technique of Black-Figured and Red-Figured Athenian Vases
by Gisela M. A. (Gisela Marie Augusta) Richter
About the author
Born in London in 1882, she became a leading scholar of classical art and later built her career in the United States. After studying at Girton College, Cambridge, she joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she worked for more than four decades and became especially closely associated with its Greek and Roman collections.
She was known for clear, influential books on ancient sculpture, vase painting, portraiture, and furniture. Her writing helped make specialized scholarship accessible to wider audiences, and her judgments on Greek and Roman art carried real weight for much of the 20th century.
She spent her later years in Rome and died there in 1972. Remembered as both a curator and a prolific author, she left behind a body of work that still matters to readers interested in the ancient world.