Richard Carrott; UC Riverside Art Expert

Richard G. Carrott, 64, an international authority on 18th- and 19th-Century architecture and a founding member of UC Riverside’s art department. Carrott, who came to UC Riverside in 1961, wrote extensively about art, architecture and art history. Among his best-known books is “The Egyptian Revival: Its Sources, Monuments and Meaning.” Carrott, who earned a doctorate in art history from Yale, had been chairman of UC Riverside’s Art Department and Academic Senate. He also was national coordinator of the Committee for the Rescue of Italian Art, an effort credited with saving hundreds of paintings and 300,000 books in 1966. On Oct. 27 of heart failure at his Riverside home.