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Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1202

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Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
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Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Author: Prince Ibrahim-Hilmy (son of Ismail, Khedive of Egypt)
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Author: Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040264840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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Western travel and collecting classical antiquities in the nineteenth century informed European understandings of Greece's past and present, and enriched private collections and museums. Travel and collecting have typically been studied separately by literary scholars, historians of archaeology, and historians of the Ottoman Empire and modern Greece. Similarly, publications have largely prioritised evidence from and about elite social groups. This book breaks new ground through its interdisciplinary approach, its insistence on the interweaving of the phenomena of travel and collecting, and its emphasis on marginalised perspectives. Contributors drawn from art history, classics, history of architecture, Ottoman history and modern Greek history foreground diversity and small-scale engagements with the landscape and material past of Ottoman Greece. The book explores the perspectives of both foreign travellers and local inhabitants through case studies, keeping a sharp focus on ethnicity and social status. Diaries, visual art, and rich archival material are analysed, often from a novel perspective, to give voice to a range of people including English servants, Albanian peasants, an illiterate Greek fighter, and the Ottoman Sultan. The result is a micro-cultural history of travel and classical collecting which expands existing narratives. As such, it changes the simplistic dichotomy between collecting as ‘pillaging’ or ‘saving’, and nuances the important current debate surrounding repatriation. Travel and Classical Antiquities in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Greece addresses scholars in the areas of classical reception studies, classical archaeology, material culture studies, nineteenth-century studies, Ottoman studies and modern Greek studies. It will also appeal to a broader audience of people interested in travel writing, the history of archaeology and the history of Greece.

Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1048

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Author: Vincent J. Bruno
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393314403
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Each volume includes all the necessary materials for the comprehensive study of a work of art:An illustration section showing the complete work of art, details, preliminary studies, and iconographic sources;An introductory essay by the editor;Documents and literary sources;Critical essays from the art-historical literature.

Author: Marijana Ricl
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Category : Alexandria Troas (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Author: Bodleian Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1040

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Author: Luciana Gallo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521881633
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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This book analyses the collection of archaeological drawings drawn in Greece by a team of artists and architects in the service of Lord Elgin.

Author: Andrea M. Gáldy
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443852597
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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If collecting the rare and valuable is an entirely normal trait of human behaviour, amassing objects from far-away places has also long played a role in the history of collecting. “East” and “West”, or “North” and “South”, for that matter, are of course entirely relative to one’s particular geographical position. Therefore, it is interesting that collecting exotic objects is an endeavour that unites humanity over millennia and round the globe. The ancient Assyrians did so as assiduously as eighteenth-century collectors in Paris or London; Chinese emperors collected Western art and artefacts at a time when Western collectors started to gather ceramics, lacquered furniture, or South-East Asian prints. Key factors were, of course, increasingly frequent contact and an ever growing knowledge about the “other” and about the other’s artistic production. Of particular interest to the mission of this working group is the fact that the building of collections was only part of the endeavour but that, in many cases, the objects imported at huge cost and logistic effort were meant to be displayed in surroundings reminiscent of their original habitat, even though their exact original context may have been open to debate and their final exhibition surroundings may have been unrecognisable to anyone from their former home. Western collectors built Chinese cabinets for their exotic treasures, often complemented by depictions of Oriental tea parties. Less familiar is perhaps the fact that, from the seventeenth century onwards, Chinese emperors displayed their European collectibles in palaces built for them for this purpose in Western architectural style. The essays in the present volume, therefore, attempt to connect the collections of exotic objects with the forms of display adopted by collectors and institutions and thus chart the levels of increasingly informed and intimate encounters between East and West, scholars and collectors, art lovers and institutions from the early first millennium BC to the early twentieth century and from South-East Asia to North-Western Europe.