Art Historian Verity Platt
Roman Imperial Period (ca. 30 BCE–476 CE), Roman Empire, Statue of a peplophoros (woman wearing a peplos), 1st century BCE–1st century CE. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund and Classical Purchase Fund
An exploration of folds and folding in Greco-Roman art
Hear art historian Verity Platt, a 2026–27 Media & Meaning Short-Term Visiting Fellow in the Humanities sponsored by the Princeton Humanities Initiative, discuss objects in the Museum's galleries of ancient Mediterranean art.
Focusing on sculpture, Platt will explore depictions of drapery in Greco-Roman artworks made of marble, clay, and bronze, examining the ways in which these sculptural folds represent textiles, convey ideologies, and create a sense of bodily presence.
Verity Platt is a professor in the Departments of Classics and History of Art and serves as the director of the Humanities Scholars Program at Cornell University. She is the author of the monograph, Epistemic Impressions: Making and Mediating Classical Art and Text (Oxford University Press, 2025).
Cosponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum, the Humanities Council, the Princeton Humanities Initiative, and the Department of Classics.
