1 option
Collecting and collectors from antiquity to modernity / edited by Alexandra Carpino, Tiziana D'Angelo, Maya Muratov, and David Saunders.
Penn Museum Library N5750 .A67 2017
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Archaeological Institute of America. Annual Meeting (118th : 2017 : Toronto, Ont.), author.
- Series:
- Selected papers on ancient art and architecture ; no. 4.
- Selected papers on ancient art and architecture ; number 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art patrons.
- Art objects--Collectors and collecting.
- Gems, Ancient.
- Collectors and collecting.
- Art, Etruscan.
- United States.
- Art, Etruscan--Collectors and collecting--United States--Congresses.
- Gems, Ancient--Collectors and collecting--United States--Congresses.
- Art objects--Collectors and collecting--United States--Congresses.
- Art objects.
- Art patrons--United States--Congresses.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, MA : Archaeological Institute of America, 2018.
- Summary:
- This volume is a timely exploration of many facets of collecting and collectors. It brings together sixteen papers originally presented in two colloquia and a workshop at the 2017 Annual Meeting in Toronto. Part 1, "Collecting and Presenting the Etruscans in North America" focuses on a select number of collecting narratives that demonstrate how the art and material culture of a then little-known Italic culture made its way to the United States during the mid- to late 19th and early 20th centuries. Part 2, "Satis sit una aliqua gemma: Collecting Classical Gem from Antiquity through the 19th Century," explores the significance that collecting antique gems acquired across time and space, as well the reasons why these objects remained highly valued and sought-after collectibles from antiquity to the modern era. Part 3, "Researching Ownership Histories for Antiquities in Museum Collections," draws attention to discoveries that have been made through provenance research, and also to the challenges that shape the investigation of provenance.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Alexandra A. Carpino
- The formation of the Etruscan collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston : the strategies of Edward Robinson and Rodolfo Lanciani / Helen Nagy
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Etruscans : collecting from the 1870s to the present / Richard De Puma
- Collecting Etruscans for California : the story of philanthropist Phoebe A. Hearst and archaeologist Alfred Emerson / Lisa C. Pieraccini
- Italian antiquities to American museums : notes on collecting at the turn of the twentieth century / Claire Lyons
- The impact of the 1970s UNESCO convention on unprovenanced Etruscan artifacts in the United States / Laetitia La Follette
- Introduction / Tiziana D'Angelo and Maya Muratov
- Romanae : collecting gems in Ancient Rome / Roberta Casagrande-Kim
- Collecting magical gems in the early modern period : from infancy to adulthood / Liliana Leopardi
- Collecting at Alnwick Castle : engraved gems in the collection of the Duke of Northumberland / Claudia Wagner
- "Fraudulent ingenuity" : Charles W. King and 19th-century collections of antique gems / Tiziana D'Angelo and Maya Muratov
- Introduction / David Saunders
- The stratigraphy of provenance / Caroline M. Rochleau
- The pitfalls and possibilities of provenance research : historic collections and the art market in the 20th century / Judith Barr
- The Tampa Poseidon = The Shugborough Neptune / Seth Pevnick
- Collecting Greek and Etruscan vases in 19th century Philadelphia / Ann Blair Brownlee
- A collaborative path for research into ancient and heritage objects / Sarah Kielt Costello and John Hopkins
- Verifying a provenance / Paul Denis
- "Said to be from" : best practices for using unscientific findspot information / Phoebe Segal
- Contributors.
- Notes:
- Sixteen papers originally presented in two colloquia and a workshop at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Toronto.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781931909365
- 1931909369
- OCLC:
- 1027730117
- Publisher Number:
- 99982934976
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.