Mattusch Receives Distinguished Book Prize

                The College Art Association awards one prize annually for an especially distinguished book in the history of art. Carol Mattusch, Math Professor of Art History, was the 2006 recipient of this award, the Charles Rufus Morey Book Prize, for her The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum: Life and Afterlife of a Sculpture Collection (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2005).

                The award citation characterized her achievement as revealing “a remarkably broad knowledge of a diverse array of subjects, ranging from the architectural and social history of Roman villas and the early modern rediscovery of antiquity to the creation of a mythology for the geologically active landscapes of Naples through artistic and novelistic means.”

                Congratulations, Dr. Mattusch, for this signal honor!