What do painted portraits and LinkedIn headshots have in common? This talk will explore how antiquarians and archaeologists represent their credentials through visual media. By tracing the emergence of classical archaeology and ancient art connoisseurship as professions, this lecture examines the shared motifs and gestures which form this visual language of expertise.

Megan Gatton is a PhD candidate at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, where she is writing a dissertation on ancient worked bone objects. As an archaeologist, she excavates at the ancient Greek colony of Selinunte in Sicily and contributes to the creation of an archaeological museum on the Quirinal hill in Rome. She has held positions at a number of museums and galleries, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Addison Gallery of American Art.