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Magna Graecia Exhibition Organizers
Aaron J. Paul is the Richard E. Perry Curator of Greek and Roman Art, Tampa Museum of Art. He holds an M.A. in classical studies from Harvard University and a B.A. in classical art and archaeology from the University of Connecticut. Mr. Paul is a specialist in the field of Greek art, with particular expertise in the field of Greek vase painting. Formerly curatorial research associate of ancient art at Harvard University, he was curator and exhibition catalogue author for Fragments of Antiquity: Drawing Upon Greek Vases (Harvard University Art Museums, 1997). He contributed to the exhibition catalogues Ceramics and Society: Making and Marketing Ancient Greek Pottery (Tampa Museum of Art, 1994) and From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer (Museum of Art and Archaeology, Columbia, Mo., 1993). His archaeological fieldwork includes five seasons of excavation on Cyprus and field school training at UNESCO’s International Center for Conservation, Rome.Michael Bennett is curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art and adjunct professor of ancient art at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, department of fine arts, and a B.A. in art history from San Jose State University. His areas of expertise include early Greek art, metalwork of the Greek Geometric period, Greek art in Asia Minor and Italy, and the iconography of Roman sarcophagi. Dr. Bennett was previously curator of classical art at the Tampa Museum of Art and keeper of coins at the Sackler Museum, Harvard University. He served as curator to a variety of exhibitions including ancient art, modern art and photography. Dr. Bennett’s book, Belted Heroes and Bound Women: The Myth of the Homeric Warrior King (Rowman and Littlefield), was published in 1997.
Mario Iozzo is director of the Center for Conservation in Florence and director of the Archaeological Museum of Chiusi, Italy. He completed studies for his Ph.D. at the Italian School of Archaeology in Athens and received his Doctorate in the Universities of Tuscany (Florence, Siena and Pisa). Dr. Iozzo is a scholar in the field of the archaeology of Magna Graecia with a particular area of expertise in the subject of Greek painted pottery of Magna Graecia. One of his many publications, Ceramica “calcides” — Nuovi documenti e problemi reproposti (1993), is the most important corpus of these Greek painted vases ever written. He has excavated in south and central Italy and in Greece — on Crete (Hagia Triada and Gortys) and in the Peloponessos (Pallantion, Corinth and Tegea).