Authors

Steven Fine (“True Colors: Digital Reconstruction Restores Original Brilliance to the Arch of Titus”) is the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University and director of the Arch of Titus Project. A cultural historian of ancient Judaism, Fine’s The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel (Harvard Univ. Press) appeared in 2016. His work is featured in Coursera’s free online course, “The Arch of Titus: Rome and the Menorah.”

Peter J. Schertz (“True Colors: Digital Reconstruction Restores Original Brilliance to the Arch of Titus”) is the Jack and Mary Ann Frable Curator of Ancient Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Codirector of the Arch of Titus Project, Schertz is a specialist in Roman sculpture and the urban fabric of ancient Rome and coeditor of Caligula 3D: Man, Myth, and Emperor (Brill, forthcoming). He is currently co-curating the exhibition The Horse in Ancient Greek Art to be held at the National Sporting Library & Museum and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.