"Anhelentia aera, vivos vultus: Breathing Bronze, Living Faces: The Making of Portraits at Aphrodisias and Rome"

Christopher Hallett is Professor of Classics and Art History at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology at U.C. Berkeley and taught in the Division of Art History at the University of Washington from 1993-2001 before returning to Berkeley in 2002. He is the recipient of a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome (1995-96), and in 1997-98 he was awarded a Humboldt Fellowship to work with Paul Zanker at the Institut für klassische Archäologie in Munich. His publications include The Roman Nude: Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC–AD 300 (Oxford University Press 2005).