BIOGRAPHY
Phoebe Segal
Phoebe Segal is the Mary Bryce Comstock Senior Curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She holds a PhD in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University and has excavated in Greece, Italy, and Cyprus. She has curated gallery renovations, including Homer and the Epics and the Early Greek Gallery. Most recently, she curated Power of the People: Art and Democracy, in which she explored the ways in which ideas about democracy have been expressed in works of art since fifth-century Athens. She is currently writing a book on the MFA’s pair of Etruscan stone sarcophagi featuring married couples poignantly embracing for eternity.