Dr. Laurel Taylor

Dr. Laurel Taylor received her Ph.D. in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World from the University of Pennsylvania (2001) and teaches in the Departments of Art and Classics at the University of North Carolina Asheville. Her research interests have focused on funerary art and ritual in ancient Italy and exploring the social meaning of death through Etruscan and Roman visual culture. Her current archaeological fieldwork is at the Etruscan and Roman site of Cetamura del Chianti, Italy.

Portrait of Young Woman and Couple (Terentius neo and Wife) from Pompeii

by Dr. Laurel Taylor

Ombra della sera

by Dr. Laurel Taylor

Roman funeral rituals and social status: The Amiternum tomb and the tomb of the Haterii

by Dr. Laurel Taylor

Sarcophagus of the Spouses (Louvre)

by Dr. Laurel Taylor

Temple of Minerva and the sculpture of Apollo (Veii)

by Dr. Laurel Taylor

The Etruscans, an introduction

by Dr. Laurel Taylor