Laura M. Giles
Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970, Curator of Prints and Drawings
Laura Giles received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1986. Her scholarly field of interest is Italian Renaissance and Baroque art. She has published many articles on Italian sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drawings, and co-authored Italian Drawings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago (1997). Since 2000 she has organized a wide range of exhibitions of works on paper at the Art Museum, including Cézanne in Focus: Watercolors from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection (2002), Klinger to Kollwitz: German Art in the Age of Expressionism (2002), and Between Image and Concept: Recent Acquisitions in African American Art (2005). She is currently preparing an exhibition on Princeton’s Italian drawings, scheduled to open in 2011–12.
Late Postclassic
Maya
Maya
Lidded effigy container in the form of a diving god, ca. A.D. 1500
Red ceramic, gritty in texture, lime inclusions; slip paint in bright colors: dark and light blue, red, buff, black, white
h. 12.7 cm., w. 11.5 cm., d. 11.8 cm., diam. rim 7.1 cm. (5 x 4 1/2 x 4 5/8 x 2 13/16 in.)
Museum purchase with funds given by an anonymous foundation (y1982-15 )
photo: Bruce M. White
