Aaron J. Paul

Aaron J. Paul received his graduate education at Harvard University and curatorial training at the Harvard Art Museums in the field of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan art. Specializing in Greek vase painting, he authored the Harvard Art Museums catalog for Fragments of Antiquity: Drawing upon Greek Vases (Cambridge 1997) and was curator of the related exhibition. In 1999 he was appointed the first Richard E. Perry Curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Tampa Museum of Art, where he co-organized the exhibition and co-edited the catalog for Magna Graecia: Greek Art from South Italy and Sicily (Cleveland 2002). He collaborated with fellow scholars to research Greek vases in the Vatican Museums, which resulted in the publication La collezione Astarita nel Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Ceramica attica bilingue a figure rosse e vernice nera (Vatican City 2016) as part of the series Vasi antichi dipinti del Vaticano. He is a contributor to major exhibition catalogs: The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C. (New Haven & London 2017), The Centaur’s Smile: The Human Animal in Early Greek Art (New Haven & London 2003), and From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer (Columbia & London 1993). An independent scholar in Washington, DC, he serves public institutions and private collectors as Research and Collections Consultant for Greek, Roman, Etruscan, and Near Eastern Art.