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Gallery Of Antiquities Selected From The British Museum
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Book Synopsis Gallery of Antiquities Selected from the British Museum by : British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities
Download or read book Gallery of Antiquities Selected from the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gallery of Antiquities, Selected From the British Museum by : Samuel Birch
Download or read book Gallery of Antiquities, Selected From the British Museum written by Samuel Birch and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
Book Synopsis The Parthenon Sculptures by : Ian Dennis Jenkins
Download or read book The Parthenon Sculptures written by Ian Dennis Jenkins and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum are unrivaled examples of classical Greek art, an inspiration to artists and writers since their creation in the fifth century bce. A superb visual introduction to these wonders of antiquity, this book offers a photographic tour of the most famous of the surviving sculptures from ancient Greece, viewed within their cultural and art-historical context. Ian Jenkins offers an account of the history of the Parthenon and its architectural refinements. He introduces the sculptures as architecture--pediments, metopes, Ionic frieze--and provides an overview of their subject matter and possible meaning for the people of ancient Athens. Accompanying photographs focus on the pediment sculptures that filled the triangular gables at each end of the temple; the metopes that crowned the architrave surmounting the outer columns; and the frieze that ran around the four sides of the building, inside the colonnade. Comparative images, showing the sculptures in full and fine detail, bring out particular features of design and help to contrast Greek ideas with those of other cultures. The book further reflects on how, over 2,500 years, the cultural identity of the Parthenon sculptures has changed. In particular, Jenkins expands on the irony of our intimate knowledge and appreciation of the sculptures--a relationship far more intense than that experienced by their ancient, intended spectators--as they have been transformed from architectural ornaments into objects of art.
Download or read book Eternal Egypt written by Edna R. Russmann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts and The British Museum and drawn exclusively from the collection of The British Museum, which is among the finest in the world. Illustrated with images of the works in the exhibition, as well as comparative materials, Eternal Egypt is that rare book of interest and value to the general and scholarly audience alike."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Chasing Aphrodite written by Jason Felch and published by HMH. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “thrilling, well-researched” account of years of scandal at the prestigious Getty Museum (Ulrich Boser, author of The Gardner Heist). In recent years, several of America’s leading art museums have voluntarily given up their finest pieces of classical art to the governments of Italy and Greece. Why would they be moved to such unheard-of generosity? The answer lies at the Getty, one of the world’s richest and most troubled museums, and scandalous revelations that it had been buying looted antiquities for decades. Drawing on a trove of confidential museum records and candid interviews, these two journalists give us a fly-on-the-wall account of the inner workings of a world-class museum, and tell a story of outlandish characters and bad behavior that could come straight from the pages of a thriller. “In an authoritative account, two reporters who led a Los Angeles Times investigation reveal the details of the Getty Museum’s illicit purchases, from smugglers and fences, of looted Greek and Roman antiquities. . . . The authors offer an excellent recap of the museum’s misdeeds, brimming with tasty details of the scandal that motivated several of America’s leading art museums to voluntarily return to Italy and Greece some 100 classical antiquities worth more than half a billion dollars.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “An astonishing and penetrating look into a veiled world where beauty and art are in constant competition with greed and hypocrisy. This engaging book will cast a fresh light on many of those gleaming objects you see in art museums.” —Jonathan Harr, author of The Lost Painting
Book Synopsis The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins by : Gerard Manley Hopkins
Download or read book The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins written by Gerard Manley Hopkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerard Manley Hopkins was not only one of the most gifted Victorian poets, he was a compelling diarist who used his journals for everything from daily to-do lists to the most intimate spiritual self-assessments. This volume represents Hopkins as a man of extremes, both emotionally and psychologically. There are mundane memoranda about neckties to purchase or letters to write, but also exacting revisions of poems. There are entries of quiet rapture, his attentioncaught by the beauty of the natural world. Paintings, sculptures, and works of literature are stringently assessed, his aesthetic principles freely exercised. There are also nightmares relived;undergraduate 'sins' unsparingly recorded; 'signs' of heavenly mercy carefully noted. This is the first unexpurgated edition of all extant diaries. The entries extend from September 1863, during his second term at Oxford, until February 1875, while studying theology as a Jesuit in his beloved Wales, and from February 1884 until July 1885, while Hopkins was living at a 'third remove' in Dublin.
Book Synopsis Egypt's Place in Universal History: an Historical Investigation in Five Books Christian C. J. Bunsen by :
Download or read book Egypt's Place in Universal History: an Historical Investigation in Five Books Christian C. J. Bunsen written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Egypt's Place in Universal History by : Christian Karl Josias Freiherr von Bunsen
Download or read book Egypt's Place in Universal History written by Christian Karl Josias Freiherr von Bunsen and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great Belzoni by : Stanley Mayes
Download or read book The Great Belzoni written by Stanley Mayes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-09-26 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The truly extraordinary life story of Giovanni Belzoni, one of the giants of 19th century Egyptian archaeology. Sometimes maligned as a tomb robber, Giovanni Battista Belzoni - engineer, barber, monk, actor and strongman in a circus, where he earned his title, 'The Great Belzoni' - is perhaps the most important and yet least remembered explorer and archaeologist of the last two hundred years. After a failed business venture in Egypt, attempting to sell a patent water wheel to the Pasha, he undertook one of the most ambitious archaeological projects ever. Under seeming impossible conditions, Belzoni transported the colossal granite head of Ramesses II from Thebes to England, where it is now one of the treasures of the British Museum. He went on to excavate the great temple of Abu Simbel, discover six major royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings, including that of Seti I, and provide the British Museum with a spectacular collection of Egyptian antiquities. Giovanni Belzoni was the first person to penetrate the heart of the second pyramid at Giza and the first European to visit the oasis of Siwah and discover the ruined city of Berenice on the Red Sea. His exhibitions and best-selling memoirs made him a major celebrity in Regency London where he was a huge influence on the vogue for Egyptian style in art, design and architecture. In 1823, at the age of forty-five, Belzoni died of fever trying to reach the mysterious city of Timbuktu.
Book Synopsis Willis's Price Current. A Catalogue of Superior Second-hand Books, Ancient and Modern ... No. CLIV[-CLXXXVII.] by : Willis and Sotheran
Download or read book Willis's Price Current. A Catalogue of Superior Second-hand Books, Ancient and Modern ... No. CLIV[-CLXXXVII.] written by Willis and Sotheran and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Egypt ́s Place in Universal History by : Christian Carl Josias von Bunsen
Download or read book Egypt ́s Place in Universal History written by Christian Carl Josias von Bunsen and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Egypt's Place in Universal History: The sources and primeval facts of Egyptian history by : Christian Karl Josias Freiherr von Bunsen
Download or read book Egypt's Place in Universal History: The sources and primeval facts of Egyptian history written by Christian Karl Josias Freiherr von Bunsen and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The sources and primeval facts of Egyptian history by : Christian Karl Josias Freiherr von Bunsen
Download or read book The sources and primeval facts of Egyptian history written by Christian Karl Josias Freiherr von Bunsen and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dictionary of National Biography by :
Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dictionary of National Biography by : Leslie Stephen
Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dictionary of National Biography by : Leslie Stephen
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dictionary of National Biography, Founded in 1882 by George Smith by : Sir Leslie Stephen
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography, Founded in 1882 by George Smith written by Sir Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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