Marianne Kleibrink studied Archaeology and Art History at Leiden University in the 1960s. Her doctoral thesis, judged a cum laude, was on the ancient-gem collection of The Hagues Coin Cabinet. She was conservator of ancient coins and assistant lecturer at Leiden University, and in 1976 was nominated the Chair of Classical Archaeology at Groningen University. She directed excavations at Satricum (Lazio) from 1979 to 1991, and from 1991 to 2004 at Francavilla Marittima (Calabria). Her publications comprise books and articles associated with the mentioned excavations and on engraved gems, ancient sculpture and the iconography of ancient myth.