Background
Bober, Phyllis Pray was born on December 2, 1920 in Portland, Maine, United States. Daughter of Melvin Francis and Lea Arlene (Royer) Pray.
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Art, Culture and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy (Paperback) - Common
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Examines cooking through the dual lens of archaeology and art history. The book describes prehistoric eating in ancient Turkey; traditions of the great civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome; and rituals of the Middle Ages and the "Late Gothic International" period.
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Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture: A Handbook of Sources. New, revised, and updated edition (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History)
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This book documents and illustrates the most significant antique works of art known to Renaissance artists. It is for all who wish to have an insight into the fundamental basis of the Renaissance, for those concerned with cultural history, art history, and archaeology. Over 500 illustrations show Greek and Roman statues, reliefs and triumphal arches, together with Renaissance drawings, engravings, bronzes and paintings to demonstrate how and where these classical monuments were discovered and recorded, and how they were copied, adapted, combined and transformed. The authors have based their selection on the Census of Antique Works of Art known to Renaissance Artists kept in the Warburg Institute, London University and in part at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York. They have arranged their illustrative material and encyclopaedic catalogue thematically, dividing it into two sections: Greek and Roman Gods and Myths; Roman History and Life. The antique works catalogued are each preceded by a short explanation of the particular theme in Antiquity, with indications of literary sources and other antique representations of the figure-type or motif known in the Renaissance. The myths and legends represented in the sculpture are retold briefly in each case. The introductory essay by Professor Bober considers the cultural impact of classical Antiquity upon the Renaissance masters, and the handbook also includes an annotated Index of Renaissance Artists and Sketchbooks, a descriptive and illustrated Index of Renaissance Collections, and an exhaustive Bibliography and General Index.
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Drawings After the Antique by Amico Aspertini: Sketchbooks in British Museum (Studies of the Warburg Institute)
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Renaissance Artists & Antique Sculpture: A Handbook of Sources by Phyllis Pray Bober (31-Mar-2011) Hardcover
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Art, Culture, and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy Hardcover - June 1, 1999
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Art, Culture, and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy
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In Art, Culture, and Cuisine, Phyllis Pray Bober examines cooking through an assortment of recipes as well as the dual lens of archaeology and art history. Believing that the unity of a culture extends across all forms of expression, Bober seeks to understand the minds and hearts of those who practiced cookery or consumed it as reflected in the visual art of the time. Bober draws on archaeology and art history to examine prehistoric eating customs in ancient Turkey; traditions of the great civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome; and rituals of the Middle Ages. Both elegant and entertaining, Art, Culture, and Cuisine reveals cuisine and dining's place at the heart of cultural, religious, and social activities that have shaped Western sensibilities. "Using gastronomy as its focus, lacy language as its style, and illustrations to enchant, Art, Culture, and Cuisine researches exactly those subjects from the time of the 'first hominids' to the 15th century. . . . The writing is extremely witty, and the dinner menus with recipes are esoteric, delightful, and mostly doable."—Library Journal "An ambitious attempt to find culinary echoes of visual and sociological movements throughout history. In sturdy, robust prose . . . the author marches us through every major civilization from prehistory through the late Gothic."—New York Times Book Review
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Art, Culture, and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy Paperback - June 1, 2001
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- Drawings After the Antique by Amico Aspertini
- Art, Culture, and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy (In Art, Culture, and Cuisine, Phyllis Pray Bober examines...)
Phyllis Pray Bober
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Phyllis Pray Bober, American humanities educator, art historian. Senior fellow Society for Humanities, Cornell University, 1984, correspondent fellow German Archaeol. Institute, since 1958, fellow Accademia dei Lincei Rome, since 1996, Guggenheim fellow, 1979-1980, honorary fellow Warburg Institute, University London, since 1993; Appleton Eminent scholar in the Arts, Florida State University, 1998.
Education
Bachelor, Wellesley College, 1941. Master of Arts, New York University Institute Fine Arts, 1943. Doctor of Philosophy, New York University Institute Fine Arts, 1946.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Rome, 1993. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Bowdoin College, 1999.
Career
From instructor to lecturer, curator Wellesley (Massachusetts) College, 1947-1949, 51-54. Teaching associate School Architect Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1951-1953. Research associate New York University Institute Fine Arts, New York City, 1954-1973.
Chair, founder department fine arts University College New York University, 1967-1973. Professor fine arts New York University, 1970-1973. Dean Graduate School Arts and Sciences Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) College, 1973-1980, professor history of art, professor classical/Near Eastern archaeology, 1973-1991, Leslie Clark professor in humanities, 1987-1991, professor emerita, from 1991.
Founder, director Census of Antique Works of Art Known to the Renaissance, Warburg Institute, University London, 1947-1984. Staff member New York University Excavations in Samothrace, 1948, 49, 72. Member Graduate Record Examination Board, Princeton, New Jersey, 1976-1980.
Representative to American Council of Learned Societies (America Council of Learned Societies), 1982-1988. Mellon visiting professor of fine arts University Pittsburgh, 1986. Co-director National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers, Rome, 1990.
Visiting professor department education American Academy, Rome, 1999. Ruth and Clarence Kennedy professor in the Reniassance Smith College, 2000.
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Art, Culture, and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy
( In Art, Culture, and Cuisine, Phyllis Pray Bober examin...)
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Art, Culture, and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy
( In Art, Culture, and Cuisine, Phyllis Pray Bober examin...)
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Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture: A Handbook of Sources. New, revised, and updated edition (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History)
(This book documents and illustrates the most significant ...)
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Art, Culture and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy (Paperback) - Common
(Examines cooking through the dual lens of archaeology and...)
- Drawings After the Antique by Amico Aspertini
- Drawings After the Antique by Amico Aspertini: Sketchbooks in British Museum (Studies of the Warburg Institute)
- Renaissance Artists & Antique Sculpture: A Handbook of Sources by Phyllis Pray Bober (31-Mar-2011) Hardcover
- Art, Culture, and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy Hardcover - June 1, 1999
- Art, Culture, and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy Paperback - June 1, 2001
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Art, Culture, and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy
Membership
Board directors Medical College Pennsylvania, 1979-1997. President Pennsylvania Association Graduate Schools, 1977-1978, Northeastern Association Graduate Schools, 1978-1979. Democratic committeewoman, 1986-1994.
Member American Philosophical Society, College Art Association (board directors 1982-1990, president 1988-1990), Renaissance Society of America (board directors 1982-1985, president 1983-1984), Archaeol. Institute American, International Association Classical Archaeology, Dames d'Escoffier, Culinary Historians of Boston, Italian Art Society, Culinary Society Philadelphia, Amer-Italy Society.
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Married Harry Bober, August 11, 1943 (divorced June 1973). Children: Jonathan Pray, David Hall.
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Senior fellow Society for Humanities, Cornell University, 1984, correspondent fellow German Archaeol. Institute, since 1958, fellow Accademia dei Lincei Rome, since 1996, Guggenheim fellow, 1979-1980, honorary fellow Warburg Institute, University London, since 1993. Appleton Eminent scholar in the Arts, Florida State University, 1998.Senior fellow Society for Humanities, Cornell University, 1984, correspondent fellow German Archaeol. Institute, since 1958, fellow Accademia dei Lincei Rome, since 1996, Guggenheim fellow, 1979-1980, honorary fellow Warburg Institute, University London, since 1993. Appleton Eminent scholar in the Arts, Florida State University, 1998.