Professor Emeritus of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study. As early as the 1950s, Lavin
was recognized as a major voice in American art history. His sustained
production of seminal scholarly contributions have left their mark on
an astonishingly wide range of subjects and fields. Author of a
prize-winning study of Late Antique architecture and pioneering work on
North African floor mosaics. Married to a teacher in the Department of
Art and Archaeology at Princeton, his older daughter, Amelia, is a
photographic artist in Baltimore, Maryland, and his younger daughter
Sylvia is Chair of the Department of Architecture at UCLA.
