Her parents were remote figures, as was the custom of the time for her demographic, but luckily she had a British governess, Katie Wray, who happened to be a classicist. Ms. Love had already made headlines when she was a graduate student at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, for outing as forgeries a prized group of Etruscan warriors at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This was due perhaps to the sexism of the time, and the parochialism of her field. “Beautiful girls in bikinis,” said another. She was in the home of a friend with Euphrosyne, left, and Diomedes (on her lap). Departures. Iris Love, art historian, champion dog breeder and the longtime romantic partner of the gossip columnist Liz Smith, was just as comfortable in the ancient world as in the society pages. Judy Wieder: Liz Smith Tells on Herself. A historical review of the female nude in Greek art. Internationales Symposion 6./7. “Beautiful girls in bikinis,” said another. “She had a formidable energy and enthusiasm that separated her from the more cautious of her peers,” said Maxwell Anderson, a past curator of the department of Greek and Roman Art at the Met. Ms. Love attended the Brearley School in Manhattan and the Madeira School in Virginia, where classmates taunted her for being Jewish, a lineage she had not understood was hers until then. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/nyregion/iris-love-dead.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_200424&instance_id=17875&nl=todaysheadlines®i_id=31130292&segment_id=25868&user_id=4f28d9ae2238dc269f44c5b84ae7b75c, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iris_Love&oldid=979846238, Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 23 September 2020, at 03:44. She earned a master’s degree from N.Y.U.’s Institute of Fine Arts and had finished Ph.D. classes there, but not her thesis, because as she often said, she was too busy with Knidos, overseeing the dig each summer and fund-raising most winters, to write it. 24 February 2009, 30 June 2014 (English). She earned a master’s degree from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts and had finished Ph.D. classes there, but not her thesis, because as she often said, she was too busy with Knidos, overseeing the dig each summer and fund-raising most winters, to write it. Iris Cornelia Love was born on Aug. 1, 1933, in New York City. Ms. Love learned Latin before first grade and would grow up to be a polylinguist. During the pursuit of her bachelor's thesis in Italy, she compared Etruscan warrior figures at the National Archaeological Museum, Florence with those at the Met in New York and concluded the latter was housing fakes. They traveled the world together, and Ms. Love and her many dachshunds moved into Ms. Smith’s apartment. Bob Morris: In Iris Love’s Wide Circle of Friends. “A previous reporter from a woman’s magazine has been disappointed to learn that Miss Love can’t wear skin creams at Knidos because the dust would cling to her face,” the Times reporter wrote on a visit to her Upper East Side apartment in Manhattan. Nomen est omen: Eine Dame namens Love entdeckte den Tempel der Liebe. Read about others here. At her death she was studying Portuguese. She was Indiana Jones in a miniskirt, a celebrity archaeologist hatched out of old New York aristocracy. Also, though she had completed the course work for a doctorate, Ms. Love never wrote a thesis, and as The New Yorker noted in a profile of her in 1978, her degree-less status further irritated jealous peers, who had derided her for her skill at fund-raising, not to mention her gender. There she discovered a temple to Aphrodite on the same summer day in 1969 that Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. ): Stadtgrabungen und Stadtforschung im westlichen Kleinasien. 19 January 1970, published 30 June 2014. In 1933, Iris Cornelia Love was born in New York to Cornelius Love and Audrey Josephthal, and was a maternal great-great-granddaughter of Meyer Guggenheim. [6], The Turkish government revoked her research license for Knidos and Love began several new research projects, including in Ancona and the Gulf of Naples, where she primarily searched for other Aphrodite shrines. 2002, 30 June 2014. Her father, Cornelius Ruxton Love Jr., was a diplomat, an investment banker employed by his father-in-law, a collector, and a descendant of Alexander Hamilton. Also, though she had completed the course work for a doctorate, Ms. Love never wrote a thesis, and as The New Yorker noted in a profile of her in 1978, her degree-less status further irritated jealous peers, who had derided her for her skill at fund-raising, not to mention her gender. There are enough Ph.D.s, and whether we gained another book or not doesn’t matter in the long run. Ms. Love died of the novel coronavirus on April 17 at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan, a friend, Carri Lyon, said. She was 86. Iris Love, Stylish Archaeologist and Dog Breeder, Dies at 86. (Josephthal) Love, was an heiress and arts patron, the daughter of Edyth Guggenheim and Louis Josephthal, an admiral and the founder of a brokerage firm. Show full articles without "Continue Reading" button for {0} hours. Finger im Staub. Ms. Love appeared, variously, as Alexander Hamilton, Cleopatra and a Viking. “A grocery carton bulging with the week’s fan mail occupies the center of the carpet like an icon.”. In 1969, her team discovered a foundation that Love thought was the remains of the Temple of Aphrodite, confirming the instinct with inscriptions found the following year.[5]. “Amazons,” one archaeologist scoffed, referring to Ms. Love’s mostly female crew at Knidos. She believed she had found the original head of Aphrodite by the artist Praxiteles in the depots of the British Museum, which would have been one of the most spectacular discoveries in the history of ancient art. Ms. Smith used to chastise Ms. Love, as she noted in her memoir, “Natural Blonde” (2000): “Don’t begin the story back when they invented language. The museum retaliated by announcing the forgeries to The New York Times, without acknowledging her work. She was a public intellectual in a way that was not typical of archaeology.”. Christine Mitchell Havelock: The Aphrodite of Knidos and her successors. She was once known as the archaeologist in a miniskirt, a scion of old New York whose second career was raising Westminster Kennel Club champions. There she discovered a temple to Aphrodite on the same summer day in 1969 that Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Smith used to chastise Ms. Love, as she noted in her memoir, “Natural Blonde” (2000): “Don’t begin the story back when they invented language. 2. She died on April 17, 2020 in Manhattan. She spoke Greek, French, German, Italian, and Turkish and could make her way in Mandarin, Russian, and Arabic. “She popularized it and warmed it up, and it seemed like everybody knew her name. You could go to the middle of the most faraway city and they would have heard of Iris. Her father, Cornelius Ruxton Love Jr., was a diplomat, an investment banker employed by his father-in-law, a collector and a descendant of Alexander Hamilton. In: The New York Times. Ms. Love in 2012. She graduated from Smith College in 1955; Sylvia Plath was a classmate. She liked to name her dachsunds after figures in ancient Greek mythology. This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. “Archaeology relies on facts, and Iris was given to informed and colorful speculation, which added coloratura to the discipline. Christine Bruns-Özgan: Knidos. There were pate molds shaped like dachshunds, ice sculptures shaped like fire hydrants and everyone, including the dogs, in costume. Iris Cornelia Love (August 1,1933 – April 17, 2020) was an American classical archaeologist, best known for the rediscovery of the Temple of Aphrodite, Knidos. Iris Cornelia Love was born on Aug. 1, 1933, in New York City. The Advocate. Ms. Love’s Turkish workers, however, called her Mister Director. The discovery attracted international media attention when it was presented at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, and attracted many famous guests to the excavation site, including Mick and Bianca Jagger. She spoke Greek, French, German, Italian and Turkish and could make her way in Mandarin, Russian and Arabic. Ege Yayınları, Istanbul 2006. Iris Cornelia Love (August 1, 1933 – April 17, 2020) was an American classical archaeologist, best known for the rediscovery of the Temple of Aphrodite, Knidos. Her mother, Audrey B. Chalk it up perhaps to the sexism of the time, and the parochialism of her field. “She brought archaeology and ancient art to a whole new strata of society,” Carlos Picon, an antiquities expert who was curator of Greek and Roman art at the Met for 28 years, said in a phone interview. [3], Love never finished the beginnings of her doctorate at New York University, instead working on an excavation on the island of Samothrace in the Aegean Sea from 1957 to 1965. Their annual Westminster dog party at Tavern on the Green in Manhattan, with a guest list typically exceeding 500 people, was a canine extravaganza. May 2012, 30. An archaeologist, she also cut a stylish figure in New York society and went on to breed champion dachshunds. Her parents were remote figures, as was the custom of the time for her demographic, but luckily she had a British governess, Katie Wray, who happened to be a classicist. [7], Iris Cornelia Love died on April 17, 2020 at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan of COVID-19.[8].

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