the 8th Duke of Devonshire in 1908. In 1906 she was appointed a corresponding member of the Imperial German Archaeological Institute (Kaiserlich-Deutsches Archäologisches Institut). Strong contributed to the catalogue of the 1903 Burlington Fine Arts Club "Greek Art" Exhibition, and wrote several books on classical art and sculpture. She wrote two chapters for the Cambridge Ancient History, on "The art of the Roman republic" and "The art of the Augustan age". Strong became a life research fellow at Girton College in 1910. She was Assistant Director of the British School at Rome from 1909 to 1925. She continued to live at a flat on the via Balbo, near the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, until her death in 1943, leaving an unpublished manuscript on the history of the Vatican Palace. She died in a nursing home, and was buried in the Campo Verano cemetery in Rome. In England, she became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1927, and the British Academy awarded her its Serena medal for Italian studies in 1938. She gave the Rhind Lectures in 1920, on Painting in the Roman Empire (from the last century of the Republic to about 800 AD). In Italy, she was elected as a member of the Lincean Academy, the Pontifical Academy of Archaeology, and the Society of the Arcadians. She supported the archaeological policies of supporters of Benito Mussolini, and was awarded the gold medal of the city of Rome in 1938. Selected works All works were authored by Eugénie Sellers Strong unless otherwise noted. (1895) Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture: A Series of Essays on the History of Art Adolf Furtwängler, Eugenie Strong (editor and translator) (a translation by Strong of Furtwängler's Meisterwerke der griechischen Plastik) (1907) Roman Sculpture from Augustus to Constantine (1915) Apotheosis and after life: three lectures on certain phases of art and religion in the Roman Empire (1929) Art in Ancient Rome (Ars una: species mille. General history of art) References Bibliography Dyson, S. L. 2004. Eugénie Sellers Strong: Portrait of an Archaeologist Scott Thomson, G. 1949. Mrs. Arthur Strong: A Memoir Toynbee, J. M. C. 2004. Strong [nee Sellers], Eugenie (1860–1943). rev. Stephen Dyson. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [Online]. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36352. http://arthistorians.info/stronges External links 1860 births 1943 deaths British archaeologists British art historians Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge Women art historians British women historians British women archaeologists Steamboat ladies