Full Name: Matz, Friedrich
Other Names:
- Friedrich Matz der Ältere
Gender: male
Date Born: 1843
Date Died: 1874
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): archaeology, funerary arts, sarcophagi (coffins), and sculpture (visual works)
Institution(s): Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Overview
German archaeologist and art historian of sarcophogial sculpture. Matz was the uncle of Friedrich Matz (1890-1974), the German authority on Mycenae.
Selected Bibliography
Duhn, Friedrich Karl von, edited. Antike Bildwerke in Rom: mit Ausschluss der grösseren Sammlungen. 3 vols. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1881-83; and Robert, Carl. Die Antiken Sarkophag-Reliefs. Berlin: G. Grote, 1880-1889
Contributors: Lee Sorensen