The Library of Congress > LCCN Permalink

View this record in:  MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)External Link

Porter, Venetia

LC control no.n 82222714
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingPorter, Venetia
    Browse this term in  LC Authorities  or the  LC Catalog
Field of activityIslamic art Art, Middle Eastern
AffiliationBritish Museum
Profession or occupationMuseum curators Middle East specialists
Found inHer Medieval Syrian pottery, 1981: t.p. (Venetia Porter)
Thea Porter, 2015: t.p. (Venetia Porter)
Sotheby's website, viewed July 15, 2016: article "Thea Porter--70s bohemian chic", published 20 Feb. 2015 (exhibition on Theo Porter, curated by Laura McLaws Helms with much input from Thea's daughter Venetia Porter (scholar, historian and MENA Art curator at the British Museum))
   <http://www.sothebys.com/en/news-video/blogs/all-blogs/Cultural-Crossroads/2015/02/thea-porter-70s-bohemian.html>
British Museum website, viewed July 15, 2016: Staff: Venetia Porter (Assistant Keeper (Curator), Islamic and contemporary Middle East; degree in Arabic and Persian from the University of Oxford; M.Phil in Islamic Art; Ph.D from the University of Durham; many publications on Islamic and Middle Eastern art)
   <http://www.britishmuseum.org/about_us/departments/staff/middle_east/venetia_porter.aspx>
Associated languageeng