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Professor Peter Stewart

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Professor of Ancient Art, Director of the Classical Art Research Centre
Wolfson College
+44 (0)1865 278082
peter.stewart@classics.ox.ac.uk

Peter Stewart's personal research mainly lies in the field of ancient sculpture and the art of the Roman provinces, as well as artistic links between Rome and other parts of the ancient world. His past publications include, Statues in Roman Society: Representation and Response (Oxford, 2003); Roman Art (Oxford/Cambridge, 2004); The Social History of Roman Art (Cambridge 2008); and A Catalogue of the Sculpture Collection at Wilton House (2020). As Director of Oxford's Classical Art Research Centre he is responsible for the Beazley Archive and he oversees research on a range of subjects, including connections between Graeco-Roman art and the Buddhist sculpture of Gandhara.

 

Full details of teaching and research activities.

Doctoral supervision

I am happy to supervise on Graeco-Roman art, including topics on Roman sculpture, Roman provincial art, antiquities collecting, and connections between Rome and the wider world of ancient art (e.g. Gandhara, India, and Central Asia).

Current students

Hisarlik, Site of Troy
Susan Chai | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart
Nomadic Empires and the Nomadic Buddha: The influence of Kushan royal portraits in Central and East Asia, 100-800 CE
Yicong Li | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart
Elephant Evolutions: Knowledge Production between Egypt and Sudan 300BC - AD400
Tim Moller | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart
A Spatial Analysis of the Built Environment Surrounding Mosaics in Imperial Period Greece and Asia Minor
Nikki Vellidis | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart
Intersecting Constructions of Race and Gender Identities of Black Africans in Hellenistic and Early Imperial Art
Eleanor Newman | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart
Victorian Collections of Classical Antiquities
Roswyn Wiltshire | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart
The Social Life of Late Antique Sarcophagi: Location, Audience, and Meaning
Alexis Gorby | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Bert Smith and Peter Stewart

Past students

Figural sculpture in Roman Britain and its Continental relationships
Penny Coombe (2021) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart
Carmen Heroum: Greek Epic in Roman Friezes
Alison Pollard (2017) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart

Key words: archives, biography, digital archaeology, museums, silk road, art, sculpture, painting, global ancient art, collecting, Classical-Roman, Classical-Greek, post-medieval, Early Modern, Europe, Central Asia, S Asia, W Asia, Mediterranean