Ann Terry

  • Adjunct Faculty, Art History
  • Department of Art and Art History
  • Phone: 401.874.2770
  • Fax: 401.874.2729
  • Email: aterry@uri.edu
  • Office Location: Fine Arts Center, F205

Biography

Ann Terry teaches courses in ancient and medieval art history.  Previously she taught at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, where she was awarded the Omicron Delta Kappa Award for Outstanding Teaching.  She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from Eastern Michigan University and a Master of Arts and PhD in art history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Research

Terry’s research focuses on late antique, early Christian and Byzantine art, architecture and archaeology, particularly in the northern Adriatic region, both in Italy and Croatia. Terry is especially interested in the materials and methods used by early Byzantine artisans, and in the interplay of those materials and methods with the aesthetics of the period.  As part of that process she takes a historiographical approach to the restoration and conservation history of early Byzantine monuments.  Her work has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, the Samuel Kress Foundation, IREX and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Education

B.F.A. Eastern Michigan University

M.A. University of Illinois

Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Selected Publications

BOOKS

Retrieving the Record: A Century of Archaeology at Poreč (1847-1947), 2 volumes, co-authored with Ffiona Gilmore Eaves, International Research Center for Late Antiquity & the Middle Ages, Zagreb, 2001

Dynamic Splendor: The Wall Mosaics in the Cathedral of Eufrasius in Poreč, 2 volumes, co-authored with Henry Maguire, Penn State Press, 2007

Winner of the 2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Finalist for the 2008 College Art Association Charles Rufus Morey Book Award

SELECT ARTICLES

“‘To Beautify Small Things’ Minutae and Majesty in the Mosaics of Parentium,” New Light on Old Glass: Recent Research on Byzantine Mosaics and Glass, ed. Chris Entwistle and Liz James, British Museum Research Publication 179 (2013), 199-206

“The Wall Mosaics in the Cathedral at Poreč,” Proceedings of the VIIIth Conference of the International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics, (Thessaloniki 29 October – 3 November, 2002) 2005, 101-107, co-authored with Henry Maguire

“The Cathedral of Eufrasius in Poreč: Documents of the k.k. Central-Commission in Vienna (1862-1917),” Transcriptions by T. Muhlstein, CD-ROM (Poreč, 2002)

“The Wall Mosaics of the Cathedral of Eufrasius in Poreč: Third Preliminary Report,” Hortus Artium Medievalium, 7 (2001), 131-166, co-authored with Henry Maguire

“New Documentary Evidence for the Restoration of the Sixth-Century Wall Mosaics at the Eufrasiana in Poreč,” Acta XIII Congresses Internationalis Archaeologiae, Volume II, Studi di Antichita Cristiana, LIV, Pontifical Instituto di Archeologia Cristiana (Vatican City), 1995, 1047-1074, co-authored with T. Muhlstein

“The Chancel Panels in the Crypt of San Marco in Venice,” Römische Historische Mitteilungen, 30 (1988), 41-51

“The Sculpture of the Cathedral of Eufrasius in Poreč,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 42 (1988), 13-64

“Souvenir of a World in Transition: A Late Roman Grave Stele from Phrygia,” The Krannert Art Museum Bulletin, V, 1, 1980, 14-28, co-authored with Robert Ousterhout