Download or read book The Portable Antiquities Scheme written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book FINDS IDENTIFIED written by KEVIN. LEAHY and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Portable Antiquities Scheme written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Portable Antiquities and Treasure written by Great Britain. Department for Culture, Media and Sport and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Portable Antiquities and Treasure written by British Museum. Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 434 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 50 Finds from Childhood written by Kayt Hawkins and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest volume in this popular series looks at how objects registered with the PAS inform our understanding of children and childhood through history.
Download or read book 50 Finds From Manchester and Merseyside written by Vanessa Oakden and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finds from the Portable Antiquities Scheme.
Download or read book Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Keeping Their Marbles written by Tiffany Jenkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past two centuries and more, the West has acquired the treasures of antiquity to fill its museums, so that visitors to the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris and the Metropolitan in New York - to name but a few - can wonder at the ingenuity of humanity throughout the ages. However, in the opinion of most people, many of these items are looted property and should be returned immediately. In 'Keeping Their Marbles', Tiffany Jenkins tells the intriguing and sometimes bloody story of how the West came to acquire these treasures. Originally published: 2016.
Download or read book 50 Roman Finds written by John Pearce and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delving into the Portable Antiquities Scheme archives to explore 50 finds from Britain's Roman history.
Download or read book The Brutish Museums written by Dan Hicks and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objectsare all stolen. Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of brass plaques and carved ivory tusks depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of BeninCity, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum and countless private collections. The story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museums, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.
Download or read book Hoards from Wiltshire written by Richard Henry and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Finds Liaison Officer for Wiltshire documents some of the incredible hoards discovered in the county.
Download or read book A Guide to the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities and published by London, Printed by order of the Trustees. This book was released on 1928 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 50 Finds From Cheshire written by Vanessa Oakden and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finds from the Portable Antiquities Scheme
Download or read book The Museum written by Rupert Smith and published by Ebury Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A behind-the-scenes look at the British Museum and its employees.
Download or read book Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity written by Jaś Elsner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the problems for studying art and religion in Eurasia arising from ancestral, colonial and post-colonial biases in historiography.
