Richard Carrott; UC Riverside Art Expert

A funeral Mass will be recited at 3 p.m. Thursday at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Riverside for Richard G. Carrott, 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, was 64 when he died of heart failure at his Riverside home on Saturday.

Carrott wrote extensively about art, architecture and art history. Among his best-known books is “The Egyptian Revival: Its Sources, Monuments and Meaning.”

He also had done extensive research on the Hamlet of Trianon in France, a village on the estate of the Palace of Versailles, built for Marie Antoinette.

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.

Survivors include a brother and sister.