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Rebecca Molholt

Assistant Professor of History of Art & Architecture:
History of Art & Architecture
Phone: +1 401 863 1175
Rebecca_Molholt@brown.edu

Biography

Rebecca Molholt's area of focus is Roman art and architecture, and specifically the art of houses and baths in the Roman provinces. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and a Master's degree in Art History from Williams College. She has worked with Pompeiian art for an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, with the late Roman-early Byzantine mosaics of Antioch for a show at the Worcester Art Museum, and co-curated an exhibition on the images of masculinity in late antiquity for Reed College. Her current work centers on the medium-specific talents of floor mosaics from Roman North Africa, and the many ways they prompt viewers to think on their feet.

Awards

David E. Finley Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2005-2008

Arthur Ross Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome, 2004-2005

Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University, 2003. For travel in Spain

Paul Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, Columbia University, 2003-2004

Bernstein Travel Fellowship, Columbia University. 2001. For travel in Italy

Bernstein Travel Fellowship, Columbia University. 2000. For travel in Tunisia

Multi-Year Presidential Graduate Fellowship, Columbia University, 1998 – 2003

Frances A. Kinnicutt Travel/Study Award, 1997. For travel in Turkey

Sterling and Francine Clark Fellowship, Williams College, 1994-1996



Archaeological Institute of America

Association International pour l'Étude de la Mosaïque Antique

College Art Association

Affiliations

Archaeological Institute of America

Association International pour l'Étude de la Mosaïque Antique

College Art Association

Teaching

Topics in Roman Art and Architecture: Roman Spectacles
Fall 2008
Spectacles offered the Romans innumerable opportunities for self-definition, on the individual level, the community level, and even the imperial level. Performance art cuts across traditional boundaries between media, and we will examine total ensembles as often as possible. Topics will include the amphitheater and the circus, representations of gladiators and charioteers, the architecture of propaganda and theater, and the triumph of victorious individuals as well as its opposite, the literal defacement of imperial portraits. Domestic spectacles will also be considered, including pleasure boats and vacation homes, gardens and sculpture collections, with selections depending upon student interest.