Attic Red-Figure & Bilingual Drinking Cups, part II, The State Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg, Fasc. XI.

Anna Petrakova graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersburg in 2000. She defended her PhD in 2004 (`Questions of composition in ancient Greek vase-painting in the 6th and 5th centuries BC, using the example of drinking cups'). Habilitation in 2013 (The Methodology of complex art-historical study of Athenian vase-painting: theory and practice, using the example of the Hermitage collection'). Since 2004 - research curator at the State Hermitage Museum, curator of Athenian pottery. Scholarly interests: Athenian black and red-figured vases, attribution and interpretation painting, methodology, restoration and conservation, history of collecting, study and perception of vase-painting. Author of four volumes of the CVA and more than fifty articles on the study of Athenian vases. Since 2009 - Associate Professor at St Petersburg University of Culture and Art.