Curator · Scholar

Carlos A. Picón

fl. 2000–2007

Curator and scholar, active 2000–2007. Worked with Philippe de Montebello; wrote with Joan R. Mertens and Elizabeth J. Milleker.

Life and work

  1. 2000
    With Director Philippe de Montebello, as Curator in Charge of Greek and Roman Art, decided in the reorganisation of the Museum's ancient art collections to allocate four galleries to Cyprus (the Cesnola collection), which Marangou connects with the Museum's origin in the Cesnola acquisition.

    New YorkMarangou 2000

  2. 2007
    Lead author of Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome; its Cypriot entries are cited by number (e.g. no. 286, a Bichrome IV-V barrel jug, MMA 74.51.517, pp. 245, 462) by Dissinger.

    Dissinger 2017

Connections

5 people

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  2. 2.Carlos A. Picón, Joan R. Mertens, Elizabeth J. Milleker, Christopher S. Lightfoot et al. (2007). Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome. New York; New Haven and London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press.
  3. 3.Alicia Marie Dissinger (2017). “Cypro-Archaic Bird Iconography: Types, Uses, and Meanings”. University of Virginia.