Lawrence Richardson Jr.

Lawrence Richardson Jr.
Born(1920-12-02)December 2, 1920
Altoona, Pennsylvania, US
DiedJuly 21, 2013(2013-07-21) (aged 92)
Durham, North Carolina, US
SpouseEmeline Hill Richardson
Academic background
Alma materYale University (BA, PhD)
Academic work
Discipline
  • Classicist
  • Ancient historian
Main interests
  • Roman architecture
  • Roman wall painting

Lawrence Richardson Jr. (December 2, 1920, in Altoona, Pennsylvania – July 21, 2013, in Durham, North Carolina)[1] was an American classicist and ancient historian educated at Yale University who was a member of the faculty of classics at Duke University from 1966 to 1991. He was married to the classical archaeologist Emeline Hill Richardson. Richardson received numerous fellowships, including a Fulbright and a Guggenheim, and support from the American Council of Learned Societies. He was a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (1950) and field director of the Academy's Cosa excavations (1952–1955). He was a resident of the American Academy in Rome (1979) and was its Mellon professor-in-charge of the School of Classical Studies (1981).[2] In 2012 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America.[3]

Richardson's research included interests in Roman domestic architecture,[4] the sites of Pompeii and Cosa,[5] and Roman wall painting.[6]

  1. ^ "Lawrence Richardson Jr., FAAR'50, RAAR'79". American Academy in Rome. Archived from the original on May 4, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2019.
    - "Lawrence Richardson Jr. '42, '52 PhD | Obituaries". Yale Alumni Magazine. Retrieved May 4, 2019.
  2. ^ "Gold Medal Citation from AIA for Lawrence Richardson, jr. Jan 6, 2012" (PDF). Classical Studies (16). Duke University: 3. 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 8, 2013. Retrieved November 6, 2023.
  3. ^ "Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement". Archaeological Institute of America. Retrieved May 4, 2019.
  4. ^ Lawrence Richardson (1988). Pompeii: An Architectural History. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-3533-9.
  5. ^ Frank Edward Brown; Emeline Hill Richardson; Lawrence Richardson (1993). Cosa III: the buildings of the forum : colony, municipium, and village. Published for the American Academy in Rome by Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-00825-7 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Lawrence Richardson, jr (2000). A Catalog of Identifiable Figure Painters of Ancient Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae. JHU Pres s. ISBN 978-0-8018-6235-9 – via Google Books.