The History of Museums Vol 4
The History of Museums Vol 4

Author: David Murray

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-17

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1040130011

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Museums and collecting is now a major area of cultural studies. This selected group of key texts opens the investigation and appreciation of museum history. Edward Edwards, chief pioneer of municipal public libraries, chronicles the founders and early donors to the British Museum. Greenwood and Murray provide informative pictures of the early history of the museum movement. Sir William Flower, Director of the British Museum (Natural History), takes a pioneering philosophical approach to the sphere of natural history in relation to museums. Similarly, Acland and Ruskin discuss and explore the relationships of art and architecture to museums.

Zeus
Zeus

Author: Arthur Bernard Cook

Publisher:

Published: 1914

Total Pages: 1040

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Engraved Gems from Dalmatia
Engraved Gems from Dalmatia

Author: Sheila Hoey Middleton

Publisher: Oxford University School of Archaeology

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 240

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This catalogue of more than 300 gems from Dalmatia brings together the nineteenth century collections of Sir John Gardner Wilkinson and Sir Arthur Evans. A substantial part of Evans' collection is now in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and those pieces now elsewhere are represented by his casts and sealings which are also in the Ashmolean. Wilkinson, an Egyptologist, left his collection of some 50 gems to Harrow School, where they still are. The catalogue illustrates a wide range of Roman gems as well as a few of earlier dates; all are described and discussed, and illustrated by enlarged photos, taken by Robert Wilkins.