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Paul Zanker (born February 7, 1937 in Konstanz, Germany) is a German classical archaeologist, currently in residence as Professor of Ancient History of Art at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.

Zanker studied Classical Archaeology and History in Munich, Rome and Freiburg. He received his doctorate in 1962 and his habilitation in 1967, then becoming a lecturer in Freiburg. From 1972 to 1976, Zanker was Associate Professor in Göttingen. From 1976 to 2002, Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich and at the same time from 1995 to 2002 director of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome. During the same period he was director of the Munich Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke that under his leadership was able to reach the old size. Since 2002 Zanker is Professor of Ancient History of Art (Storia dell 'arte antica) at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.

Zanker studies on Roman transformations Greek statues to Roman portrait, the political dimension of ancient art, especially in the Augustan age, and the Pompeian living tastes were indicative in Classical Archaeology and numerous studies have been initiated.

Zanker is a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, the Academia Europaea in London and the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, Copenhagen. As a member of the Bavarian Academy, Zanker is also Chairman of the Commission for the Corpus Vasorum quorum and the Commission to explore ancient town life. Paul Zanker 1990/1991 was Sather Professor at the University of California at Berkeley and in 1999 became the Reuchlin Prize of the city of Pforzheim, in 2008 with the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art award.

Publications
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 * Change the Hermes figure in Attic vase painting . Well, Bonn 1965th [Freiburg, Univ., Diss, 1962]
 * Forum Augustum. The image program . Wasmuth, Tübingen 1968
 * Roman Forum. The new design by Augustus, Wasmuth, Tübingen 1968 ISBN 3-8030-1404-2
 * Neoclassical statues. Studies on change of artistic taste in the Roman Empire, from Saverne, Mainz, 1974 [Freiburg, Univ., Habil-Schr.]
 * Studies on the portraits of Augustus, Volume 1: The type-Actium . Göttingen 1973rd (Transactions of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Philology and History class, Episode 3, 85) ISBN 3-525-82358-4
 * Provincial imperial portraits. For reception of self-representation of princeps . Munich 1983rd (Papers / Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Philosophy and historical class NF 90)
 * Augustus and the power of pictures, CH Beck, Munich 1987 ISBN 3-406-32067-8 (also: Leipzig, Koehler & Amelang 1987), 4th Edition, 2003.
 * The drunken old woman. The laughter of the reviled, Fischer, Frankfurt / Main 1988 ISBN 3-596-23960-5
 * Pompeii. Townscape and residential flavor of Saverne, Mainz 1995 ( Cultural History of the Ancient World, Vol 61) ISBN 3-8053-1685-2
 * Edited, with Michael Wörrle : townscape and public image in Hellenism ( Vestigia contributions to Ancient History Volume 47.) . CH Beck Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-39036-6
 * The Mask of Socrates. The image of the intellectual in Ancient Art, CH Beck, Munich 1995 ISBN 3-406-39080-3
 * An art for the senses. For the imagery of Dionysus and Aphrodite, Wagenbach, Berlin, 1998 ISBN 3-8031-5162-7
 * (With Bjorn Christian Ewald): Living with myths. The imagery of the Roman sarcophagi, Hirmer, Munich 2004 ISBN 3-7774-9650-2
 * The apotheosis of Roman emperors. Ritual and urban theater . Munich, Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation 2004.