Irene J. Winter (born 1940 in New York City[1]) is an American art historian who is an influential and pioneering scholar of ancient Near Eastern art.[2]

Life

BA Barnard College, Anthropology, 1960; MA University of Chicago, Near Eastern Studies, 1967; PhD Columbia University, Art History and Archaeology. She has taught at Queens College, CUNY, 1971-1976, The University of Pennsylvania, 1976-1988, and Harvard University since 1988, chairing the department of Fine Arts from 1993-1996, and served on the Faculty Council, 2006-2009; retired June 2009. Slade Professor, University of Cambridge, 1997.[3] She was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999 and the American Philosophical Society in 2016.[4][5]

Awards

• 2009 The Barnard College Medal of Distinction
• 2005 Mellon Lecturer, The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
• 2003-2004 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study fellows[6]
• 1983 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

• On Art in the Ancient Near East, 2 Vols. Brill Academic Publishers, 2010, ISBN 978-90-04-17500-6

References

Further reading

• Marian Feldman; Jack Cheng, eds. (1 June 2007). Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context: Studies in Honor of Irene J. Winter by Her Students. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-15702-6.