Ann Kuttner is Professor of the History
of Art at Penn. She received her B.A.
(1978) in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
from Bryn Mawr College and Ph.D. (1987) from the
Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology
at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor
Kuttner was Associate Professor in Univ. of Toronto’s
Dept. of Fine Art before arriving at Penn in 1992.
Her research and teaching interests lie in Hellenistic,
Roman and Late Antique socio-political history,
visual language, and material culture. She also
advises projects in the Renaissance rapprochement
with the Roman legacy and ancient North India's
absorption of Greco-Roman paradigms. Long interested
in luxury arts as domestic display, and public
sculptural decoration and architectural programming,
she has in the last years expanded research to
include landscape architecture, painting, the character
of the Roman domus and villa, and relations between
textual production and visual language.
