Author: Susan Margaret Nicholson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780906367155
Category : Archaeologists
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Joseph Mayer, 1803-1886
Author: Susan Margaret Nicholson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780906367155
Category : Archaeologists
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780906367155
Category : Archaeologists
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Joseph Mayer of Liverpool, 1803-1886
Author: Margaret T. Gibson
Publisher: New International Greek Testam
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Joseph Mayer was a jeweller and goldsmith who acquired a variety of collections originally made by others, and eventually presented them to the city of Liverpool. This volume provides chapters on the various parts of his collection: Egyptian, Assyrian and babylonian, Etruscan, Greek & Roman, Ancient gems, Late Antique and medieval Ivories, Limoges Enamels, British Antiquites (Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon), Manuscripts (western, Burmese, persian, Turkish, Arabic), Arms & Armour, Majolica, Oriental Ceramics, Wedgwood, Napoleonic memorabilia.
Publisher: New International Greek Testam
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Joseph Mayer was a jeweller and goldsmith who acquired a variety of collections originally made by others, and eventually presented them to the city of Liverpool. This volume provides chapters on the various parts of his collection: Egyptian, Assyrian and babylonian, Etruscan, Greek & Roman, Ancient gems, Late Antique and medieval Ivories, Limoges Enamels, British Antiquites (Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon), Manuscripts (western, Burmese, persian, Turkish, Arabic), Arms & Armour, Majolica, Oriental Ceramics, Wedgwood, Napoleonic memorabilia.
Joseph Mayer, 1803-1886
Author: University. Library (Liverpool)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves
Author: Jacqueline Yallop
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 0857895613
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
During the Victorian age, British collectors were among the most active, passionate, and eccentric in the world. This book tells the stories of some of the 19th century's most intriguing collectors, following their perilous journeys across the globe in the hunt for rare and beautiful objects. From art connoisseur John Charles Robinson, to the aristocratic scholar Charlotte Schreiber, who ransacked Europe for treasure, and from London's fashionable Pre-Raphaelite circle, to pioneering Orientalists in Beijing, Jacqueline Yallop plunges us into the cut-throat world of the Victorian mania for collecting.
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 0857895613
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
During the Victorian age, British collectors were among the most active, passionate, and eccentric in the world. This book tells the stories of some of the 19th century's most intriguing collectors, following their perilous journeys across the globe in the hunt for rare and beautiful objects. From art connoisseur John Charles Robinson, to the aristocratic scholar Charlotte Schreiber, who ransacked Europe for treasure, and from London's fashionable Pre-Raphaelite circle, to pioneering Orientalists in Beijing, Jacqueline Yallop plunges us into the cut-throat world of the Victorian mania for collecting.
The Lives of Chinese Objects
Author: Louise Tythacott
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857452398
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This 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.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857452398
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This 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.
Transmissions and Translations in Medieval Literary and Material Culture
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004501908
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This collection explores multiple artefactual, visual, textual and conceptual adaptations, developments and exchanges across the medieval world in the context of their contemporary and subsequent re-appropriations.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004501908
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This collection explores multiple artefactual, visual, textual and conceptual adaptations, developments and exchanges across the medieval world in the context of their contemporary and subsequent re-appropriations.
Private Collecting, Exhibitions, and the Shaping of Art History in London
Author: Stacey J. Pierson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315311925
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This book presents the history of a gentlemen’s club in London that was founded in 1866 for the purpose of exhibiting private art collections. It takes the main exhibition themes as a starting point to explore approaches to art, connoisseurship and display in a unique setting.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315311925
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This book presents the history of a gentlemen’s club in London that was founded in 1866 for the purpose of exhibiting private art collections. It takes the main exhibition themes as a starting point to explore approaches to art, connoisseurship and display in a unique setting.
The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie Stephen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1368
Book Description
Uncovering the Germanic Past
Author: Bonnie Effros
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN: 0199696713
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
This volume suggests how the slow genesis of Merovingian archaeology in France challenged the prevailing views of the population's exclusively Gallic ancestry. A history of the first century of the discipline, Effros' interdisciplinary study looks at the important contributions of medieval archaeological finds to modern French identity.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN: 0199696713
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
This volume suggests how the slow genesis of Merovingian archaeology in France challenged the prevailing views of the population's exclusively Gallic ancestry. A history of the first century of the discipline, Effros' interdisciplinary study looks at the important contributions of medieval archaeological finds to modern French identity.
Literary Forgery in Early Modern Europe, 1450–1800
Author: Walter Stevens
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421426889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
“The essays gathered in this volume demonstrate that studying early modern European literary forgeries is a fascinating cultural adventure” (Lina Bolzoni author of The Gallery of Memory). This comprehensive study of literary and historiographical forgery goes well beyond questions of authorship. It spotlights the imaginative vitality of forgery and its sinister impact on genuine scholarship. This volume demonstrates that early modern forgery was a literary tradition in its own right, with distinctive connections to politics, Greek and Roman classics, religion, philosophy, and modern literature. The early modern explosion in forgery of all kinds—particularly in the fields of literary and archaeological falsification—demonstrates a dramatic shift in attitudes toward historical evidence and in the relation of texts to contemporary society. The authors capture the impact of this evolution within many cultural transformations, including the rise of print, changing tastes and fortunes of the literary marketplace, and the Protestant and Catholic Reformations. The thirteen essays draw on Johns Hopkins University’s Bibliotheca Fictiva, the world’s premier research collection dedicated exclusively to the subject of literary forgery. It consists of several thousand rare books and unique manuscript materials from the early modern period and beyond. Contributors: Frederic Clark, James Coleman, Richard Cooper, Arthur Freeman, Anthony Grafton, A. Katie Harris, Earle A. Havens, Jack Lynch, Shana D. O’Connell, Ingrid Rowland, Walter Stephens, Elly Truitt, Kate Tunstall
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421426889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
“The essays gathered in this volume demonstrate that studying early modern European literary forgeries is a fascinating cultural adventure” (Lina Bolzoni author of The Gallery of Memory). This comprehensive study of literary and historiographical forgery goes well beyond questions of authorship. It spotlights the imaginative vitality of forgery and its sinister impact on genuine scholarship. This volume demonstrates that early modern forgery was a literary tradition in its own right, with distinctive connections to politics, Greek and Roman classics, religion, philosophy, and modern literature. The early modern explosion in forgery of all kinds—particularly in the fields of literary and archaeological falsification—demonstrates a dramatic shift in attitudes toward historical evidence and in the relation of texts to contemporary society. The authors capture the impact of this evolution within many cultural transformations, including the rise of print, changing tastes and fortunes of the literary marketplace, and the Protestant and Catholic Reformations. The thirteen essays draw on Johns Hopkins University’s Bibliotheca Fictiva, the world’s premier research collection dedicated exclusively to the subject of literary forgery. It consists of several thousand rare books and unique manuscript materials from the early modern period and beyond. Contributors: Frederic Clark, James Coleman, Richard Cooper, Arthur Freeman, Anthony Grafton, A. Katie Harris, Earle A. Havens, Jack Lynch, Shana D. O’Connell, Ingrid Rowland, Walter Stephens, Elly Truitt, Kate Tunstall