owed to Joan Mertens and Carlos Picón of The Ninaber, and Anna Zagorski. Alexis Castor and Bjoern Metropolitan Museum of Art; Denis Haynes and Dyfri Ewalt were ideal research associates at the Center for Williams of the British Museum; Alain Pasquier of the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. In Washington, Patrick Louvre; Mary B. Comstock, John Herrmann, and Cornelius Resing and Jack Shepherd performed key editorial work. C. Vermeule of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Jan Lee B. Ewing, photographer, National Gallery of Art, Bouzek of the Classical Institute of Archaeology, Charles offered new insights. Amber life and work were much University, Prague; János György Szilágyi of the Fine Arts ameliorated by my Academic Programs Department Museum, Budapest; Elena Khodza at the State Hermitage colleagues Ana Maria Zavala Kozuch, Ben Masri-Cohen, Museum, Saint Petersburg; and David Grimaldi of the Ali Peil, Rachel Schulze, and Jennifer Wagelie. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Gavin Hamilton, Leon Levy and Shelby White, and Judy and Without the support of family and friends, this work Michael Steinhardt kindly welcomed study of their would not have reached daylight. Selma Holo and Fred private collections. Without the generous help of specific Croton read and listened to the unfolding story. Alan scholars and curators in Italy, this project would not have Conisbee and Marie Clarke offered more than engineering progressed. Among Italian colleagues, I extend particular insight. My grandmother and parents, Elizabeth Lees, thanks to Sebastiano Bianco, Nuccia Negroni Catacchio, Willard Causey, and Catherine Causey-Lees, and my Giulia Rocco, and Marcello Tagliente. siblings C. Andrew Causey, Douglas Causey, Kay Marie Kuder, and Laurel Nelson provided not only Substantial recognition goes to my Doktorvater, Mario Del encouragement over the years but also keen editorial Chiaro, and to my former graduate students and research eyes. Andrew’s contributions go far beyond art and assistants in California and Washington. First on the list anthropology. To my son, Jan, and to the memory of are the Angelenos Maureen Burns, John Tucker, René Philip, this book is dedicated. Acknowledgments 285