Download or read book Gallery of Antiquities Selected from the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chasing Aphrodite written by Jason Felch and published by HMH. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “thrilling, well-researched” account of years of scandal at the prestigious Getty Museum (Ulrich Boser, author of The Gardner Heist). In recent years, several of America’s leading art museums have voluntarily given up their finest pieces of classical art to the governments of Italy and Greece. Why would they be moved to such unheard-of generosity? The answer lies at the Getty, one of the world’s richest and most troubled museums, and scandalous revelations that it had been buying looted antiquities for decades. Drawing on a trove of confidential museum records and candid interviews, these two journalists give us a fly-on-the-wall account of the inner workings of a world-class museum, and tell a story of outlandish characters and bad behavior that could come straight from the pages of a thriller. “In an authoritative account, two reporters who led a Los Angeles Times investigation reveal the details of the Getty Museum’s illicit purchases, from smugglers and fences, of looted Greek and Roman antiquities. . . . The authors offer an excellent recap of the museum’s misdeeds, brimming with tasty details of the scandal that motivated several of America’s leading art museums to voluntarily return to Italy and Greece some 100 classical antiquities worth more than half a billion dollars.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “An astonishing and penetrating look into a veiled world where beauty and art are in constant competition with greed and hypocrisy. This engaging book will cast a fresh light on many of those gleaming objects you see in art museums.” —Jonathan Harr, author of The Lost Painting
Download or read book Gallery of Antiquities Selected from the British Museum written by Francis Arundale and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gallery of Antiquities Selected from the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities and published by . This book was released on 1842* with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Antiquities to Impressionism written by Laura Coyle and published by Scala Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Published to coincide with an exhibition celebrating the 75th anniversary of William A. Clark's bequest of more than 800 objects from his private collection.
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Download or read book Gallery of Antiquities written by F. Arundale and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Gallery of Antiquities: Selected From the British Museum As the first part of the present work treated on the mythology of such figures of divinities as existed in the National Collection, so the second gives an account of the monumental history of those works of art which illustrate the reigns of different monarchs, their iconography, and state of the arts. This portion of the work is, however, of incomparably greater difficulty than the mythology, from the paucity of historical remains, the apparent discrepancy between the traditionary history of the Greek writers and the remains themselves. While the latter are all powerful as far as their evidence goes, it is unfortunately often disjointed and unintelligible; for example, the succession after Thouthmosis the Second, and the question of the second and third Ramesses, may be considered, at present, open to an opinion. The same remarks apply still more forcibly to the state of chronology. The object iof this work being an illustration of the Museum monuments, and not a critical analysis of Egyptian history, it was not possible to enter into discussion on the subject of history and chronology, and the discrepant chronologies of Rosellini and Wilkinson have been noted without any opinion as to the preferable accuracy of either. The whole of this part of the subjects requires a careful recasting; and in the promised work of Chevalier Bunsen and Dr. Lepsius, which is on the eve of appearance, more monumental evidence and critical light will be thrown upon the state of the question than has been hitherto attempted. At the same time the hieroglyphical texts have been carefully translated, and such as have been given by Rosellini, with a citation of his translation, a due acknowledgment of the assistance derived from it, and a most scrupulous criticism and amendment of the errors which necessarily beset all initiative attempts. Another point has also been slightly touched on, that of 'the identification of some of the races and nations, or cities conquered by the Egyptians; but this part of the subject also partially, from the uncertainty of whether, in many instances, the names of the prisoners have been accurately copied. 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.
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Download or read book Gallery of Antiquities Selected from the British Museum written by F 1807-1853 Arundale and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Download or read book The Quest for Immortality written by Erik Hornung and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, which includes artefacts from nearly 2000 years before the Christian era. Objects such as coffins, tombs, masks, jewellery, papyri, sarcophagi and monumental and small-scale sculpture reveal the reverence and awe with which the Egyptians considered the mystery of death. The essays in this book explore Egyptian art history, customs and worship, with specific focus on the Amduat, a book devoted to the pharaoh's 12-hour journey to the afterlife. Additional writings detail the background of the collection and focus upon the role of art in ancient Egypt."--Amazon.
Download or read book The Gallery of Antiquities An Old Maid written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book The gallery of antiquities An old maid The illustrious Gaudissart written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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