Catalogue of the Collection of Assyrian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Indian, Peruvian and Mexican Antiquities
Author: Bram Hertz
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Published: 1851
Total Pages: 188
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Author: Bram Hertz
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Published: 1851
Total Pages: 188
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Louise Tythacott
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2011-06-01
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0857452398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-century Putuo – China’s most important pilgrimage island – to their seizure by a British soldier in the First Opium War in the early 1840s, and on to a starring role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the 1850s, they moved in and out of dealers’ and antiquarian collections, arriving in 1867 at Liverpool Museum. Here they were re-conceptualized as specimens of the ‘Mongolian race’ and, later, as examples of Oriental art. The statues escaped the bombing of the Museum during the Second World War and lived out their existence for the next sixty years, dismembered, corroding and neglected in the stores, their histories lost and origins unknown. As the curator of Asian collections at Liverpool Museum, the author became fascinated by these bronzes, and selected them for display in the Buddhism section of the World Cultures gallery. In 2005, quite by chance, the discovery of a lithograph of the figures on prominent display in the Great Exhibition enabled the remarkable lives of these statues to be reconstructed.
Author: Jeann MacIntosh Turfa
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2017-07-24
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1784916390
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA catalogue of one of the finest collections of Etruscan artifacts outside of Italy, that of Wold Museum, Liverpool. This publication is highly illustrated with over 100 plates in full colour.
Author: Andrew D. Turner
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2024-02-13
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1606068725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe untold chronicles of the looting and collecting of ancient Mesoamerican objects. This book traces the fascinating history of how and why ancient Mesoamerican objects have been collected. It begins with the pre-Hispanic antiquities that first entered European collections in the sixteenth century as gifts or seizures, continues through the rise of systematic collecting in Europe and the Americas during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and ends in 1940—the start of Europe’s art market collapse at the outbreak of World War II and the coinciding genesis of the large-scale art market for pre-Hispanic antiquities in the United States. Drawing upon archival resources and international museum collections, the contributors analyze the ways shifting patterns of collecting and taste—including how pre-Hispanic objects changed from being viewed as anthropological and scientific curiosities to collectible artworks—have shaped modern academic disciplines as well as public, private, institutional, and nationalistic attitudes toward Mesoamerican art. As many nations across the world demand the return of their cultural patrimony and ancestral heritage, it is essential to examine the historical processes, events, and actors that initially removed so many objects from their countries of origin.
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Published: 1888
Total Pages: 1114
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Published: 1889
Total Pages: 1162
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph Mayer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-02-16
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 3382307111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author: John Russell Smith
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 628
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 614
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