Il socio straniero Sir John Boardman è mancato il 23 maggio 2024 a Oxford (Gran Bretagna).
Il necrologio è stato pubblicato da Olga Palagia nell'American Journal of Archaeology (2025 129:1, 133-137)
Sir John Boardman, 1927–2024
John Boardman was a towering figure who dominated the study of Greek art and archaeology in the second half of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21st. His was a brilliant mind, which could be intimidating as he often anticipated one’s reactions and could be well ahead of his contemporaries.
He truly was one of the luminaries of classical studies on the world stage.
His academic career was spent at the University of Oxford, where he taught an international cast of pupils, many of whom went on to teach in their home countries, carrying on a tradition of excellence to younger generations. His teaching was supplemented by a spate of handbooks, translated into several languages. In awe of him, students were inspired by his example of hard work and dedication. “How many hours did you spend in the library today?” was the dreaded question to the usual suspects. Along with lives, he also touched a great range of subjects and was a leading specialist in disparate fields such as vase painting and iconography, sculpture, gems, colonization, and the impact of the Greeks in Asia. This short notice cannot do justice to his multifaceted personality. His memoirs give a succinct account of his life and works, and the reader is referred there for more details.
He was born on 20 August 1927 in Ilford, Essex, the son of Frederick Ar- chibald Boardman and Clara Wells. His parents had been born in the 19th century and were already in their forties when he arrived.3 He died on 23 May 2024 at a hospice near his home in Woodstock, Oxfordshire. He is sur- vived by his children, Julia and Mark, and two grandchildren. His wife, Sheila Stanford, died in 2005.
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