Ridgway hellenistic sculpture biography
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Brunilde Ridgway
Italian art historian (1929–2024)
Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway (14 November 1929 – 19 October 2024) was an Italian-American archaeologist and specialist in ancient Greek sculpture.
Ridgway hellenistic sculpture biography
Life and career
The daughter of Giuseppe Sismondo, a career army officer, and Maria (Lombardo) Sismondo, Ridgway was born in Chieti on 14 November 1929;[1] as a young child she lived in Sicily and then in Ethiopia and Eritrea, where her father had been stationed during World War II.
When her father was captured by the British in World War II and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Kenya, she secured a job as a telephone operator at police headquarters in Asmara (Eritrea) where she learned to speak English.
After World War II, she studied classics at the University of Messina, where she obtained her degree in classics in 1953. An archaeologyscholarship and Fulbright Travel Grant allowed her to continue her studies at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, where she came under