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Author : Anne Sebba
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904349679
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (496 download)
Download or read book The Exiled Collector written by Anne Sebba and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Dolnick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501198947
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Writing of the Gods written by Edward Dolnick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fast-paced and “engrossing account” (The New York Times Book Review) of “one of the greatest breakthroughs in archaeological history” (The Christian Science Monitor): two rival geniuses in a race to decode the writing on one of the world’s most famous documents—the Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous objects in the world, attracting millions of visitors to the British museum every year, and yet most people don’t really know what it is. Discovered in a pile of rubble in 1799, this slab of stone proved to be the key to unlocking a lost language that baffled scholars for centuries. Carved in ancient Egypt, the Rosetta Stone carried the same message in different languages—in Greek using Greek letters, and in Egyptian using picture-writing called hieroglyphs. Until its discovery, no one in the world knew how to read the hieroglyphs that covered every temple and text and statue in Egypt. Dominating the world for thirty centuries, ancient Egypt was the mightiest empire the world had ever known, yet everything about it—the pyramids, mummies, the Sphinx—was shrouded in mystery. Whoever was able to decipher the Rosetta Stone would solve that mystery and fling open a door that had been locked for two thousand years. Two brilliant rivals set out to win that prize. One was English, the other French, at a time when England and France were enemies and the world’s two great superpowers. Written “like a thriller” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), The Writing of the Gods chronicles this high-stakes intellectual race in which the winner would win glory for both himself and his nation. A riveting portrait of empires both ancient and modern, this is an unparalleled look at the culture and history of ancient Egypt, “and also a lesson…in what the human mind does when faced with a puzzle” (The New Yorker).
Author : Ines Rotermund-Reynard
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110388804
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Echoes of Exile written by Ines Rotermund-Reynard and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of people were driven into exile by Germany's National Socialist regime from 1933 onward. For many German-speaking artists and writers Paris became a temporary capital. The archives of these exiles became "displaced objects" - scattered, stolen, confiscated, and often destroyed, but also frequently preserved. This book assesses previously unknown source material stored at the Moscow State Military Archive (RVGA) since the end of the war, and offers new insights into the activities of German-speaking exiles in the 1930s in Paris and Europe. Against the backdrop of current debates surrounding displaced cultural goods and their restitution, this work seeks to facilitate a transnational, interdisciplinary scientific dialogue.
Author : Charles Frederick Heartman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The American Collector written by Charles Frederick Heartman and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Coin Collector's Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Stamp-collector's magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Noel Humphreys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The coin collector's manual written by Henry Noel Humphreys and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book The Print-collector's Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fitz Roy Carrington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book The Print-collector's Quarterly written by Fitz Roy Carrington and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Noel Humphreys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Coin Collector's Manual, Or Guide to the Numismatic Student in the Formation of a Cabinet of Coins written by Henry Noel Humphreys and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Walsh
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892364769
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)
Download or read book The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections written by John Walsh and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1997-12-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a history of the buildings that have housed the Getty Museum collections, overviews the collections themselves, and offers a biography of J. Paul Getty
Author : Alfred Trumble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Art Collector written by Alfred Trumble and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Chandler
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825800147
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Exile and Patronage written by Andrew Chandler and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exile and Patronage is an innovative new study which explores the migration of refugees from National Socialism from the perspective of patronage. The thirteen essays are divided into three parts: art and music, the churches and political refugees. Individual case studies look at the relationships which came to life around George Bell, Bishop of Chichester, the Berger family, Michael Croft, Heinz Kappes, Gerhard Leibholz, Robert Bruce Lockhart, Rowmund Pisudski, Jack Pritchard, Hans Ansgar Reinhold and Luigi Sturzo. The book also examines the iconography of patronage and studies particular works which received support in exile such as Wagner's Buhnenweihfestspiel.
Author : Peter Jones
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443857610
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The Land Agent in Britain written by Peter Jones and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the fact that their archives survive in volume and depth across the country, relatively little is known about the fascinating and complex role of the land agent across time. For the very first time, this volume brings together historians, practitioners and representatives of the bodies overseeing the continuing professional development of agents to explore, in overview and through detailed case studies, the wide variety of skills required by those entering this profession. At the core of the contributions here is the sense of continuity which exists between the Anglo-Saxon Reeve and the highly qualified modern land agent. Skills such as a working knowledge of farming, entrepreneurialism, the ability to ‘get on’ with a wide variety of stakeholders as well as estate owners, conservation, environmental management and adaptability to fast changing economic climates or technological possibilities remain as important today as they have been in the past. Fusing together historical and modern perspectives, the contributors both trace the development and refinement of these skills and begin to look to the future of estates and their agents in a post-Brexit world characterised by uncertain subsidies, persistently low food prices, radical changes in the intensity of weather patterns and the need once more to build strong economic and socio-cultural bridges between town and country.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8027231507
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book BEOWULF (Collector's Edition) written by Anonymous and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beowulf is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature. It survives in a single manuscript known as the Nowell Codex. Its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet is dated between the 8th and the early 11th century. In 1731, the manuscript was badly damaged by a fire that swept through a building housing a collection of Medieval manuscripts assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton. The poem's existence for its first seven centuries or so made no impression on writers and scholars, and besides a brief mention in a 1705 catalogue by Humfrey Wanley it was not studied until the end of the eighteenth century, and not published in its entirety until the 1815 edition prepared by the Icelandic-Danish scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats in Scandinavia, comes to the help of Hroðgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall (in Heorot) has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then also defeated. Victorious, Beowulf goes home to Geatland in Sweden and later becomes king of the Geats. After a period of fifty years has passed, Beowulf defeats a dragon, but is fatally wounded in the battle. After his death, his attendants bury him in a tumulus, a burial mound, in Geatland. The numerous different translations and interpretations of Beowulf turn this monumental work into a challenge for the reader.
Author : Neil Cooke
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785701029
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Every Traveller Needs a Compass written by Neil Cooke and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2015-10-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A varied and charming collection of 17 papers that bring something new about the people from many countries and backgrounds who traveled to, from and within Egypt and the Near East, either singly or as a group, and explored, observed and recorded, or stayed for a short period of time to improve their health or simply to enjoy the experience. While some travelers kept a diary or journal that has survived until today, others did not. Their travels have to be extracted from the wide range of manuscript sources that are thankfully retained in libraries and archives, or which still remain with their descendants. Sometimes, the name of a traveler is only contained in a few words within a single piece of correspondence or journal entry, yet from such small beginnings and through detective work to link the chance meetings between travelers with a location, or news of a shared event, it is often possible to chart part of a traveler’s journey and bring to life a person who has long been forgotten. These minor characters and their travails often bring a new perspective to well-known places and events.
Author : Andrea M. Gáldy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527571335
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Collecting and Provenance written by Andrea M. Gáldy and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays highlights the enduring significance of provenance and its implications for historians and art historians, as well as students and researchers engaged in museum studies. It also offers an opportunity to demonstrate its relevance to other fields of expertise, such as conservation, visual culture studies, aesthetics, authentication and connoisseurship versus technology as a means of establishing attributions and detecting forgeries. Provenance is still of vital importance to jurisdiction, whether it concerns property law or ownership. It also remains topical because of the ongoing debates over looted art in the 1930s and 1940s and the illicit trade in antiquities conducted from Iraq and Syria by terrorist groups.
