Download or read book Museum Americanum Or Select Antiquities Curiosities Beauties and Varieties of Nature and Art in America written by Charles Hulbert and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Antiquities and Curiosities written by Sotheby's (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wondrous Curiosities written by Stephanie Moser and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on her exloration of the British Museum's world-famous collection of Egyptian antiquities, this pioneering study reveals the powerful role of museums in shaping our understanding of science, culture, and history.
Download or read book The Collector s Cabinet written by Marc Allum and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the wonderful world of antiques and collectables with Antiques Roadshow regular, Marc Allum. Go in search of stolen masterpieces, learn the secrets of the forgers, track down Napoleon's toothbrush and meet the garden gnome insured for £1 million. Eclectic, eccentric and brimming with remarkable tales from history, The Collector's Cabinet is for all those who are fascinated by the relics of the past.
Download or read book Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance written by Julius von Schlosser and published by Getty Research Institute. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, the pioneering book that launched the study of art and curiosity cabinets is available in English. Julius von Schlosser’s Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spätrenaissance (Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance) is a seminal work in the history of art and collecting. Originally published in German in 1908, it was the first study to interpret sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cabinets of wonder as precursors to the modern museum, situating them within a history of collecting going back to Greco-Roman antiquity. In its comparative approach and broad geographical scope, Schlosser’s book introduced an interdisciplinary and global perspective to the study of art and material culture, laying the foundation for museum studies and the history of collections. Schlosser was an Austrian professor, curator, museum director, and leading figure of the Vienna School of art history whose work has not achieved the prominence of his contemporaries until now. This eloquent and informed translation is preceded by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann’s substantial introduction. Tracing Schlosser’s biography and intellectual formation in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, it contextualizes his work among that of his contemporaries, offering a wealth of insights along the way.
Download or read book A Description of the Antiquities and Curiosities in in Wilton House written by James Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1769 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Return of Curiosity written by Nicholas Thomas and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spy Museum, the Vacuum Cleaner Museum, the National Mustard Museum—not to mention the Art Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Getty Center: museums have never been more robust, curating just about everything there is and assuming a new prominence in public life. The Return of Curiosity explores museums in the modern age, offering a fresh perspective on some of our most important cultural institutions and the vital function they serve as stewards of human and natural history. Reflecting on art galleries, science and history institutions, and collections all around the world, Nicholas Thomas argues that, in times marked by incredible insecurity and turbulence, museums help us sustain and enrich society. Moreover, they stimulate us to think in new ways about our world, compelling our curiosity and showing us the importance of understanding one another. Thomas looks at museums not simply as storehouses of old things but as the products of meaningful relationships between curators, the public, history, and culture. These relationships, he shows, don’t always go smoothly, but they do always offer new insights into the many ways we value—and try to preserve—the world we live in. The result is a refreshing and hopeful look at museums as a cultural force, one that, by gathering together paintings, tropical birds, antiques, or even our own bodies, offers an illuminating reflection of who we are.
Download or read book Seekers of Curiosities and Antiquities written by Willard Anderson Hanna and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archaeological Oddities written by Kenneth L. Feder and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an offbeat field guide for sites in North America that reflect the rejection of the facts of prehistory and history. They are the physical equivalents of "fake news" about America's ancient past. Feder provides an entertaining summary forty sites along with the practical information you’ll need to visit these fun and fascinating sites.
Download or read book Passionate Curiosities written by Lauren Elizabeth Talalay and published by Kelsey Museum Publications. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passionate Curiosities explores the collections held in the University of Michigan's Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through the lens of the people whose intellectual interests, financial backing, and social networks brought artifacts to Ann Arbor from the 1880s to the 1990s. Through purchases and expeditions, these individuals shaped the Museum's internationally recognized antiquities from the ancient civilizations of Greece, Rome, North Africa, Egypt, and the Near East, extensive photographic documentation of these regions from the early 1900s, and significant assemblages of early Christian and Islamic visual culture. An intriguing array of personalities--from archaeologists, missionaries, and diplomats to industrialists, bankrollers, and inventors--weave through these pages. They include Ernst Herzfeld, the eminent Orientalist who helped forge antiquities legislation in Iran; Luigi Cesnola, the rapacious harvester of Cypriot sites; Esther Van Deman, the pioneering feminist and scholar of Roman construction techniques; and Samuel Goudsmit, the renowned nuclear physicist and avid Egyptologist. World-famous dealers who established standards in antiquities connoisseurship likewise populate these sagas. Readers will encounter Edgar J. Banks, a swashbuckling purveyor of Mesopotamian antiquities and entrepreneur of biblical documentary films; Maurice Nahman, the "lion of Cairo"; and the colorful members of the Tano dealer dynasty in Egypt. This copiously illustrated book will interest general readers as well as scholars curious about the holdings of the Kelsey, early collectors and dealers, and the history of museums.
Download or read book Itinerarium Curiosum Or an Account of the Antiquities and Remarkable Curiosities in Nature Or Art Observed in Travels Through Great Britain written by William Stukeley and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Description of the Antiquities and Curiosities in Wilton House Illustrated with Twenty Five Engravings of Some of the Capital Statues Bustos and Relievos by James Kennedy written by JAMES. KENNEDY and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T067296 Dedication dated: April 25, 1769. With a half-title and a list of subscribers. P.117 misnumbered 93. Salisbury: printed by E. Easton; and sold by R. Horsfield; J. Boydell; J. Dodsley; A. Webley; J. Walter; T. Cadell; and J. Robson, London, 1769. [10], xxxviii,93[i.e.117], [1]p.,25plates; 4°
Download or read book The Antiquities and Curiosities of the Exchequer by Hubert Hall Preface by the Rt Hon Sir John Lubbock written by Hubert Hall and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Antiquities and Works of Art of George T Dennis Including Interesting Curiosities and Early Domestic Implements Carvings in Wood and Stone Some Capital Paintings written by Georges T. Dennis and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cabinet of Curiosities written by Douglas Preston and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of NPR's 100 Best Thrillers Ever, FBI agent Pendergast discovers thirty-six murdered bodies in a New York City charnel house . . . and now, more than a century later, a killer strikes again. In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered. Inside are thirty-six bodies--all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago. While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start to terrorize the city. The nightmare has begun. Again.
Download or read book A Description of the Antiquities and Curiosities in Wilton House written by Thomas Herbert Pembroke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Description of the Antiquities and Curiosities in Wilton-House My Lord, I have been frequently desired by Men of Rank and Learning, to publish a more copious Account of the fine Monuments of Antiquity preserved in Wilton-House, than has hitherto appeared, and to embellish it with Drawings of some of the Capital Statues and Burritos; Monuments, executed by the most eminent Artists, and formerly the Admiration of Greece and Rome. Nothing has detained me in long from complying with this Request, but the Difficulty of procuring an Artist of Abilities equal to such a Work; that Obstacle is now removed; and I am extremely happy, that your Lordship's Return from your Travels has given me an Opportunity of introducing this Work to the Public under the Sanction of your Name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Antiquities Natural History Ruins and Other Curiosities of Egypt Nubia and Thebes written by and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
