Otto Brendel (born 1901 Nuremberg, Germany; died New York City September 1973) was an art historian and scholar of Etruscan art and archaeology. Year 1901 ( MCMI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The City of New York Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. Etruscan civilization is the modern English name given to the culture and way of life of a people of ancient Italy

In 1928 he received his Ph. D. from the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg under Ludwig Curtius on the topic of Roman iconography of the Augustinian period. The Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg ( University of Heidelberg, Ruperto Carola, Heidelberg University, or simply Heidelberg) is a While at Heidelberg, Brendel studied with the leading minds of his day: Franz Boll (1867-1924), Alfred von Domaszewski (1856-1927), Friedrich Karl von Duhn (1851-1930), Richard Carl Meister (1848-1912), and Eugen Täubler (1879-1953); the literary theorist Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956), Friedrich Gundolf (1880-1931), Karl Jaspers (1883-1969), the classical art historians Karl Lehmann and Friedrich Zimmer. Franz Boll (1867-1924 was a German scholar He became Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Heidelberg. Ernst Robert Curtius ( April 14, 1886 &ndash April 19, 1956) was a German literary scholar a Philologist and Romance language Friedrich Gundolf, born Friedrich Leopold Gundelfinger ( July 20[[ 880]] – July 12[[ 931]] was a German - Jewish literary scholar Karl Theodor Jaspers ( February 23, 1883 – February 26, 1969) was a German Psychiatrist and Philosopher who Karl Lehmann (born May 16, 1936 in Sigmaringen) is a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Bishop of Mainz and former He emigrated to the United States in 1938. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

In the United States, he taught at various schools, including: Washington University in St. Louis (1938-41); Indiana University (1941-1956). The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Indiana University is the flagship campus of the Indiana University system. From 1949-51 Brendel was at the American Academy in Rome first under a Prix de Rome and then with a Fulbright Fellowship. The American Academy in Rome is a research and arts institution located on the Gianicolo ( Janiculum Hill) in Rome. This article concerns the French government prize For similarly named prizes aimed at other countries' nationals see Prix de Rome (disambiguation. The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright-Hays Program, is a program of grants for international educational exchange for scholars educators graduate In 1956 he became Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, and became emeritus in 1963, continuing to teach until his retirement in June of 1973. Art history is the Academic study of objects of Art in their Historical development and stylistic contexts i Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek grc ἀρχαιολογία archaiologia – grc ἀρχαῖος archaīos Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. He died that September. At the time of his death he had completed the manuscript for the Pelican History of Art volume on Etruscan art and it was published in 1978.

One of Brendel's students was Larissa Bonfante. Larissa Bonfante is Professor of Classics at New York University and an international authority on Etruscan language and culture.

Bibliography

• [dissertation:] Ikonographie des Kaisers Augustus. Heidelberg, 1931.
• "Prolegomena to the Study of Roman Art. " Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 21 (1953): 7-73, revised and reprinted separately as Prolegomena to the Study of Roman Art. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1979.
• Etruscan Art. Pelican History of Art 43. New York: Penguin Books, 1978, 2nd ed, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
• The Visible Idea: Interpretations of Classical Art. Washington, DC: Decatur House, 1980.
• Ikonographie des Kaisers Augustus. 1931.
• "Symbolik der Kugel. " Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Roemische Abteilung 51 (1936): 1-95, reprinted as, Symbolism of the Sphere: a Contribution to the History of Earlier Greek philosophy. Leiden: Brill, 1977.
• "Classicism in Roman architecture. " Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 29 (October 1970): 264.
• "Borrowings from ancient art in Titian. " Art Bulletin 37 (June 1955): 113-25.

Further reading

• Calder, William M. , III. "Biographical Note. " In Memoriam Otto J. Brendel: Essays in Archaeology and the Humanities. Edited by Larissa Bonfante and Helga von Heintze. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1976, x-xi. [complete bibliography,] xii-xiv.
• Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Modern Perspectives in Western Art History: An Anthology of 20th-Century Writings on the Visual Arts. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971, p. 81.
• Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 283-284.
• Calder, William. "Brendel, Otto J. " Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology. Nancy Thomson de Grummond, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996, vol. 1, pp. 190-91.