Professor Emeritus of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study. As early as the 1950s, Lavin was recognized as a major voice in American art history. His sustained production of seminal scholarly contributions have left their mark on an astonishingly wide range of subjects and fields. Author of a prize-winning study of Late Antique architecture and pioneering work on North African floor mosaics. Married to a teacher in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton, his older daughter, Amelia, is a photographic artist in Baltimore, Maryland, and his younger daughter Sylvia is Chair of the Department of Architecture at UCLA.
Known for movies
Art of the Western World 1989 as Himself - art expert
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