Museum staff · Cataloguer

Mary Comstock

fl. 1972–1976

Museum staff member and cataloguer, active 1972–1976. Worked with Emily T. Vermeule and Claire Blackwell; wrote with Cornelius C. Vermeule III.

Life and work

  1. 1972
    Named in the preface among the members of the Department of Classical Art responsible for the collective catalogue of the MFA's Cypriot antiquities.

    BostonVermeule 1972

  2. 1976
    Co-authored with C. C. Vermeule the MFA sculpture catalogue 'Sculpture in Stone'; it is cited for Cypriot marble and limestone statuettes (e.g. a BCH Chronique note cites nos 100 and 181; City of Gold cites no. 55, the 'Bartlett Head' Aphrodite).

    BostonComstock & Vermeule 1976Karageorghis 1978, n. 14

Connections

3 people

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Cornelius Vermeule (1972). Art of Ancient Cyprus. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
  2. 2.M. B. Comstock, C. C. Vermeule (1972). Greek, Etruscan & Roman Art: The Classical Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts. Boston.
  3. 3.M. B. Comstock, C. C. Vermeule (1976). Sculpture in Stone: The Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston.
  4. 4.V. Karageorghis (1978). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1977”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 102.