Lost and now found : explorers, diplomats and artists in Egypt and the near East /
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Long distance travel and mass tourism are not recent phenomena. This collection of papers from the 2015 ASTENE Conference in Exeter demonstrates that over the centuries many individuals and groups of people have left the safety of their family home and travelled huge distances both for adventure and to learn more about other peoples and places. Some travels were to help establish trade routes, while others were for personal pleasure and knowledge. Many of those who travelled have left little or no record but in a few cases their travels can be determined from the brief encounters they had with other travellers who noted these chance meetings in their journals and diaries, which they later used to inform and write for publication accounts of their own travels and impressions.
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Previously issued in print: 2017.
Includes index.
Selected conference papers. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
Specialized. :
9781784916282 (ebook) :
The world of Disney : from antiquarianism to archaeology /
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Dr John Disney (1779-1857) was the benefactor of the first chair in archaeology at a British university. He also donated his major collection to the University of Cambridge. The sculptures continue to be displayed in the Fitzwilliam Museum. The Disney family traced its origins back to the Norman invasion of England, and the family home was at Norton Disney in Lincolnshire. Disney's father, the Reverend John Disney DD (1746-1816) left the Church of England to become a minister at the Unitarian Essex Street Chapel in London. A major sponsor of the chapel was Thomas Brand-Hollis of The Hyde, Essex, who bequeathed the house and his Grand Tour collection (formed with Thomas Hollis) on his death in 1804 to the Reverend John Disney. Disney inherited part of the classical collection of his uncle and father-in-law Lewis Disney-Ffytche, owner of the 18th century pleasure gardens, Le Désert de Retz, outside Paris.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (154 pages) : illustrations. :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789698282 (PDF ebook) :
Exhibiting the past : Caspar Reuvens and the museums of antiquities in Europe, 1800-1840 /
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In the first decades of the 19th century the exhibition of antiquity in museums reflected a universal history of civilization, in which the idea of cross-cultural influences dominated. Hindu-buddhist civilization of 13th century Java was easily connected to that of classical Greece, and Indian Hindu-depictions were playfully related to those of Egyptian Pharaonic time. This book shows how antiquity, during and just after the Napoleonic era formed a statement in a changing world at the dawn of nationalism. The main character is the first professor of Archaeology Caspar Reuvens, director of the Museum of Antiquity in Leiden, the Netherlands (1818-1835). It emphasis on his forming years in Paris and Germany, his many travels to London, and his plans for a journey to Rome. Beside, it sheds new light on the radically changing canon of antique sculpture in a nervous Europe, that soon would be falling apart in nation states.
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198 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-195) and index. :
9782503541525
2503541526 :
https://search.lib.uiowa.edu/primo-explore/sourceRecord?vid=01IOWA&docId=01IOWA_ALMA21313620730002771
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L'argilla e il tornio : la produzione fittile dell'Egitto antico in Toscana : Firenze, Museo archeologico, 21 dicembre 1991-23 febbraio 1992.
: Exhibition catalogue : Firenze, Museo Argeologico, 21 dicembre 1991-23 febbraio 1992. : 99 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 23 cm. : Includes bibliographical references.
Museum archetypes and collecting in the ancient world /
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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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1 online resource (xiv, 222 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-192) and index. :
9789004283480 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Lost and now found : explorers, diplomats and artists in Egypt and the near East /
:
Long distance travel and mass tourism are not recent phenomena. This collection of papers from the 2015 ASTENE Conference in Exeter demonstrates that over the centuries many individuals and groups of people have left the safety of their family home and travelled huge distances both for adventure and to learn more about other peoples and places. Some travels were to help establish trade routes, while others were for personal pleasure and knowledge. Many of those who travelled have left little or no record but in a few cases their travels can be determined from the brief encounters they had with other travellers who noted these chance meetings in their journals and diaries, which they later used to inform and write for publication accounts of their own travels and impressions.
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Previously issued in print: 2017.
Includes index.
Selected conference papers. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
Specialized. :
9781784916282 (ebook) :
Ancient art and its commerce in early twentieth-century Europe : the John Marshall Archive : a collection of essays written by the participants of the John Marshall Archive Project...
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John Marshall (1862-1928) was an antiquities expert hired by the Metropolitan Museum of New York. An attentive observer of the antiquities trade, Marshall's archive, photographs and annotations on more than 1000 objects, shines light on the secretive world of art dealing and how objects arrived at the largest museums of Europe and North America.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803272573 (PDF ebook) :
The antiquities trade in Egypt 1880-1930 : the H.O. Lange papers /
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"The vast collections of Egyptian objects on display in Western museums attract millions of visitors every year, and they reinforce a cultural fascination for this ancient civilisation that has been a feature of European intellectual history since Roman times. This book tells the story of how these objects came to be here. ... The book presents the first in-depth analysis of this market during its 'golden age' in Egypt in the late 19th and early 20th Century. It is primarily based on the archival material of the Danish Egyptologist H. O. Lange (1863-1943) who, during two prolonged stays in Egypt (1899/1900 and 1929/1930), bought objects on behalf of Danish museums. The travel diaries, and the accompanying photographs, are complemented by a wide range of other sources, including contemporary travel guides and various travel memoirs, which together paint an extraordinarily detailed picture of the extensive antiquities trade."
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333 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 27 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-316) and indexes. :
9788773044001 :
1904-5506 ;