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Ancient Art and its Commerce in Early Twentieth-Century Europe - A Collection of Essays Written by the Participants of the John... Ancient Art and its Commerce in Early Twentieth-Century Europe - A Collection of Essays Written by the Participants of the John Marshall Archive Project (Hardcover)
Guido Petruccioli
R1,822 Discovery Miles 18 220 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

At the beginning of the 20th century, changes in taste and expectations of the public led private museums in Europe and North America to embark on large-scale acquisition of archaeological objects from the Mediterranean and the Near East. John Marshall (1862-1928) was an antiquities expert hired by the Metropolitan Museum of New York as purchasing agent in Europe on behalf of its Department of Classical Art in between 1906 and 1928. His mission was to secure for the Metropolitan a comprehensive collection of antiquities of high aesthetic standards and historical significance. During his agency, John Marshall was an attentive observer of the antiquities trade. Photographs and annotations on more than a thousand ancient objects circulating on the art market at that time have survived in his personal archive, later bequeathed to the British School at Rome and the Ashmolean Library at Oxford. This unpublished and very valuable resource shines light on the secretive world of art dealing and provides information on the history of many masterpieces of ancient and post-ancient art now in the largest museums of Europe and North America. Using information gathered by John Marshall, this book delineates how the trade of art and archaeological objects has impacted the perception of the Classical past in the modern Western world.

A Catalogue of the Sculpture Collection at Wilton House (Hardcover): Peter Stewart A Catalogue of the Sculpture Collection at Wilton House (Hardcover)
Peter Stewart; Photographs by Guido Petruccioli
R2,800 Discovery Miles 28 000 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Wilton House sculptures constituted one of the largest and most celebrated collections of ancient art in Europe. Originally comprising some 340 works, the collection was formed around the late 1710s and 1720s by Thomas Herbert, the eccentric 8th Earl of Pembroke, who stubbornly 're-baptized' his busts and statues with names of his own choosing. His sources included the famous collection of Cardinal Mazarin, assembled in Paris in the 1640s and 1650s, and recent discoveries on the Via Appia outside Rome. Earl Thomas regarded the sculptures as ancient - some of them among the oldest works of art in existence - but in fact much of the collection is modern and represents the neglected talents of sixteenth-and seventeenth-century artists, restorers and copyists who were inspired by Greek and Roman sculpture. About half of the original collection remains intact today, adorning the Gothic Cloisters that were built for it two centuries ago. After a long decline, accelerated by the impact of the Second World War, the sculptures have been rehabilitated in recent years. They include masterpieces of Roman and early modern art, which cast fresh light on Graeco-Roman antiquity, the classical tradition, and the history of collecting. Illustrated with specially commissioned photographs, this catalogue offers the first comprehensive publication of the 8th Earl's collection, including an inventory of works dispersed from Wilton. It re-presents his personal vision of the collection recorded in contemporary manuscripts. At the same time, it dismantles some of the myths about it which originated with the earl himself, and provides an authoritative archaeological and art-historical analysis of the artefacts.

Tough Times: The Archaeology of Crisis and Recovery - Proceedings of the Graduate Archaeology at Oxford conferences in 2010 and... Tough Times: The Archaeology of Crisis and Recovery - Proceedings of the Graduate Archaeology at Oxford conferences in 2010 and 2011 (Paperback, New)
help from Guido Petruccioli, Javier Martinez Jimenez, Elsbeth M. Van Der Wilt
R1,799 Discovery Miles 17 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume contains the combined proceedings of two consecutive conferences (2010 and 2011) organised by Graduate Archaeology at Oxford (GAO) to promote communication between graduate students in all disciplines related to archaeology. Reflecting the current difficult economic climate and austerity measures, both conferences explored challenging times and adaptive strategies in the past.

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