Author: Sir Sidney LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Dictionary of National Biography: Abbey-Eyre
Author: Sir Sidney LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
The British Consular Service in the Aegean and the Collection of Antiquities for the British Museum
Author: Lucia Patrizio GunningPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351893599
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The book tells the story of how the British consular service in the Aegean, in the years of the British protectorate of the Ionian Islands (1815-1864) became an agency for the retrieval, excavation and collection of antiquities eventually destined for the British Museum. Exploring the historical, political and diplomatic circumstances that allowed the consular service to develop from a chartered company into a state run institution under the direction of the Foreign Office, it provides a unique perspective on the intersection of state policy, private ambition, and the collecting of antiquities. Drawing extensively on consular correspondence, the study sets out several challenges to current views. For those interested in the history of travel in the Levant, or more generally in the Grand Tour, the book presents an alternative point of view that challenges the travellers' descriptions of the region. The book also intersects with British diplomatic history, providing an insight into the consuls in both their official and private circumstances, and comparing their situation under the Levant Company with that of the Foreign Office run consular service. The complex political situation in the Aegean at the time of the take over of the service is examined along with the political and commercial roles of the consuls, their daily dealings with the Greeks and Ionians, and also with the Ottoman authorities. Through private correspondence, it shows how the consuls' reflected the belief that Greek, Egyptian, Babylonian, Roman and other antiquities would be better looked after in a British, French, German or American museum, than by the people, and in the countries, they were created for. In particular, the book illuminates the public/private nature of the consuls' role, the way they worked with, but independently of, government, and it reveals how Britain was able to acquire major pieces of sculpture from the nineteenth century Aegean.
Colnaghi's Dictionary of Florentine Painters from the 13th to the 17th Centuries
Author: Sir Dominic Ellis ColnaghiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Colnaghi's, 1760-1960
Author: P. & D. Colnaghi & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Sir Sidney LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 2170
Book Description
Art Prices Current
Author: The Art Thief
Author: Noah CharneyPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416550313
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Charney crafts an intellectual masterpiece--the mystery of three missing masterpieces that sends criminals and curators alike on a rollicking chase through the art galleries and auction houses of Europe.
The Artist
Author: The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: A Strange Business
Author: James HamiltonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1605988715
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us today. Its reactants were human genius, money and influence, its crucibles the streets and institutions, its catalyst time, its control the market. In this rich and fascinating book, James Hamilton investigates the vibrant exchange between culture and business in nineteenth-century Britain, which became a center for world commerce following the industrial revolution. He explores how art was made and paid for, the turns of fashion, and the new demands of a growing middle-class, prominent among whom were the artists themselves. While leading figures such as Turner, Constable, Landseer, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Dickens are players here, so too are the patrons, financiers, collectors and industrialists; publishers, entrepreneurs, and journalists; artists' suppliers, engravers, dealers and curators; hostesses, shopkeepers and brothel keepers; quacks, charlatans, and auctioneers. Hamilton brings them all vividly to life in this kaleidoscopic portrait of the business of culture in nineteenth-century Britain, and provides thrilling and original insights into the working lives of some of the era's most celebrated artists.