Museum archetypes and collecting in the ancient world /
Museum Archetypes and Collecting in the Ancient World offers a broad, yet detailed analysis of the phenomenon of collecting in the ancient world through a museological lens. In the last two decades this has provided a basis for exciting interdisciplinary explorations by archaeologists, art historian...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2015]
Series:
Monumenta Graeca et Romana
21.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287402.
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Call Number: N5202.G8 M87 2015
| Summary: | Museum Archetypes and Collecting in the Ancient World offers a broad, yet detailed analysis of the phenomenon of collecting in the ancient world through a museological lens. In the last two decades this has provided a basis for exciting interdisciplinary explorations by archaeologists, art historians, and historians of the history of collecting. This compendium of essays by different specialists is the first general overview of the reasons why ancient civilizations from Archaic Greece to the Late Classical/Early Christian period amassed objects and displayed them together in public, private and imaginary contexts. It addresses the ranges of significance these proto-museological conditions gave to the objects both in sacred and secular settings. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 222 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-192) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004283480 |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |