Arthur Kingsley Porter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Arthur Kingsley Porter

American art historian

Date of Birth: 06-Feb-1883

Place of Birth: Connecticut, United States

Date of Death: 08-Jul-1933

Profession: historian, art historian, medievalist, archaeologist, architecture historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Arthur Kingsley Porter(1883 – 1933) was an American archaeologist, art historian and medievalist.
He was Chair of Harvard University’s Art History Department, and was the first American scholar of Romanesque Architecture to achieve international recognition.
Porter disappeared in 1933 near Glenveagh Castle, his home in Ireland, and was presumed drowned.
Porter’s most significant contribution was his revolutionary studies and insights into the spread of Romanesque sculpture.
His study of Lombard architecture also remains the first in its class.
He left his Cambridge mansion, Elmwood (Cambridge, Massachusetts), to Harvard University, where it has served as the official residence of Harvard’s President since 1970.