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Excalibur: Essays on Antiquity and the History of Collecting in Honour of Arthur MacGregor

By Michael Vickers , Hildegard Wiegel

Book information

Publisher
BAR Publishing
Year
2013
ISBN
9781407311302, 9781407340999
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
64 MB (67371740 bytes)
Series
BAR British Archaeological Reports International Series 2512
Pages
\191
Time added
2023-05-04 13:35:05

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A collection of 16 papers to honour Arthur MacGregor and his work. Cover Copyright Vita Arthuri The published writings of Arthur MacGregor An Anglo-Saxon gold finger-ring from Abingdon, Oxfordshire Wonder after modernity: 16th century visual sources, 20th centuryethnographic collections and ‘transition’ Plundered art for the collections of Charles I?The capture of Munich in May, 1632 Collecting the overlooked: some baroque paintings from the collection ofSir Arthur Evans (1851-1941) Collections, sculpture and the changing fortunes of aneighteenth-century portrait bust A rare collection: Oxford museums past and present The Bodleian Picture Gallery Beauvalet de Saint-Victor’s ‘Vases grecs et étrusques’ The reception of the van Branteghem collection in Belgium ‘His Royal Highness the Prints of Wales’:George IV as a collector of prints1 Robert Pashley and the Pashley sarcophagus Roach Smith and the antiquities of London: the sculptures A private library in 19th century Rome:the sale of Giovanni Pietro Campana’s library* Fable and history: Prince Poniatowski’s Neoclassical gem collection The Ancient World in the nursery:German tin figures of the 18th to 21st centuries A forgotten provincial English museums initiative of the 1830s:The Midland counties Natural History Societies,their museums and libraries Coda

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