Museum archetypes and collecting in the ancient world /

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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Other Authors: Gahtan, Maia W., Pegazzano, Donatella.

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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To 1500
Art > Collectors and collecting > History > Greece > To 1500 > Congresses.
Art > Collectors and collecting > Rome > Congresses.
Art and society > Greece > History > To 1500 > Congresses.
Art and society > Rome > Congresses.
Art and society.
Art > Collectors and collecting.
Greece.
Rome (Empire)
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.

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Call Number: N5202.G8 M87 2015

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Museum Archetypes and Collecting: An Overview of the Public, Private, and Virtual Collections of the Ancient World /
  • Maia Wellington Gahtan and Donatella Pegazzano
  • 1 Towards the Museum: Perceiving the Art of "Others" in the Ancient Near East /
  • Massimiliano Franci
  • 2 Greek Temple Treasures and the Invention of Collecting /
  • Josephine Shaya
  • 3 Collecting the Past, Creating the Future: Art Displays in the Hellenistic Mediterranean /
  • Margaret M. Miles
  • 4 Hellenistic Court Collecting from Alexandros to the Attalids /
  • Ann Kuttner
  • 5 Poetic Depictions of Ancient Dactyliothecae /
  • Évelyne Prioux
  • 6 The Culture of Collecting in Roma: Between Politics and Administration /
  • Paolo Liverani
  • 7 Archetypes of Collecting in the Roman World: Antiquarianism, Gift Exchange, Identity and Time-Space as Parameters of Value /
  • Alexandra Bounia
  • 8 Verres, Cicero and Other Collectors in Late Republican Roma /
  • Alessandra Lazzeretti
  • 9 Collectables, Antiques and Sumptuary Trends in Ancient Roma: A Look around the Dining Halls of the Late Republic and Early Empire /
  • Ida Gilda Mastrorosa
  • 10 Private Art Galleries in Roma: Literary and Archaeological Evidence /
  • Francesca Ghedini and Giulia Salvo
  • 11 Temple Inventory and Fictive Picture Gallery: Ancient Painting between Votive Offering and Artwork /
  • Nathaniel Jones
  • 12 Collecting Culture: Statues and Fragments in Roman Gardens /
  • Richard Neudecker
  • 13 The Opportunistic Collector: Sources of Statuary Décor and the Nature of Late Antique Collecting /
  • Lea Stirling
  • 14 Collecting and the Creation of History /
  • Sarah Bassett
  • Afterword. Framing Knowledge: Collecting Objects, Collecting Texts /
  • Jaś Elsner
  • Bibliography
  • Index A. Ancient Texts Cited or Mentioned
  • Index B. Place Names
  • Index C. Personal Names
  • Index D. Notable Greek, Latin and Egyptian Words
  • Index E. General Subjects.