Kenethus Lapatin, vulgo plene Kenneth Dean Shapiro Lapatin (natus anno 1961) est curator adsociatus antiquitatum apud Museum Getty. Alumnus est universitatum Californiensis Berkeleiensis, ubi doctoratum meruit, et Oxoniensis; eruditus est archaeologiae Italicae et Graecae aevo aëneo necnon Classico. Praecipue artibus luxuriae studet operumque subditiciorum diagnosi. Inter ruinas urbium Caesareae Maritimae, Romae, Corinthi laboravit. Apud Institutum Archaeologicum Americanum est praelector Joukowski anni 2009/2010; concilio conditorio Lexici iconographici mythologiae Classicae participat.

Opera recensere

Libri
  • 2001: Chryselephantine Statuary in the Ancient Mediterranean World
  • 2002: Mysteries of the Snake Goddess: Art, Desire and The Forging of History. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-81328-9
  • 2004 (cum Marina Belozerskaya): Ancient Greece: art, architecture, and history. Los Angeles: Getty Publications. ISBN 0-89236-695-8 Recensio
  • 2005: Seeing the Getty Villa
  • 2006 (auctore Beth Cohen, adiuvantibus Susan Lansing-Maish, K. Lapatin, J. Maish, aliis): The Colors of Clay: special techniques in Athenian vases (catalogus expositionis apud Villam Getty) ISBN 0-89236-571-4
  • 2006: Guide to the Getty Villa
  • 2008 (editor): Papers on Special Techniques in Athenian Vases: Proceedings of a Symposium Held in Connection with the Exhibition "The Colors of Clay" at the Getty Villa, June 15-17, 2006. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum. ISBN 978-0-89236-901-0, 0892369019 Recensio
  • 2008 (editoribus Roberta Panzanelli, Eike D. Schmidt, Kenneth Lapatin): The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2008. ISBN 978-0-89236-918-8 Recensio
Commentationes
  • 1992 : "A Family Gathering at Rhamnous? Who's Who on the Nemesis Base" in Hesperia vol. 61 (1992) pp. 107-119 JSTOR
  • 1997 : "Pheidias ἐλεφαντουργός" in American Journal of Archaeology vol. 101 (1997) pp. 663-682 JSTOR
  • 2000 : "Boy Gods, Bull Leapers, and Mother Goddesses" in Source: Notes in the History of Art vol. 20 (2000) pp. 18-28 JSTOR
  • 2001 : "Snake Goddesses, Fake Goddesses" in Archaeology vol. 54 (2001) pp. 33-36 JSTOR
  • 2008 : "Luxus" in Carol C. Mattusch, Pompeii and the Roman Villa: art and culture around the Bay of Naples. Vasingtoniae: National Gallery of Art; Londinii: Thames & Hudson, 2008