Joseph Mayer Of Liverpool 1803 1886

Author : Margaret T. Gibson,S. M. Wright
Publisher : New International Greek Testam
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015041198287

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Joseph Mayer of Liverpool, 1803-1886 by Margaret T. Gibson,S. M. Wright Pdf

Joseph Mayer was a jeweller and goldsmith who acquired a variety of collections originally made by others, and eventually presented them to the city of Liverpool.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.

Author : Susan Margaret Nicholson,Margaret Warhurst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Archaeologists
ISBN : 0906367158

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Joseph Mayer, 1803-1886 by Susan Margaret Nicholson,Margaret Warhurst Pdf

Author : Jacqueline Yallop
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780857895615

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Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves by Jacqueline Yallop Pdf

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.

Author : Liz James,Antony Eastmond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351871099

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Wonderful Things: Byzantium through its Art by Liz James,Antony Eastmond Pdf

The essays collected in this book were delivered at the XLII Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held in London in 2009 to accompany the exhibition Byzantium 330-1453, at the Royal Academy. The exhibition was one of the most ambitious and complex exhibitions ever mounted at the Royal Academy, as well as one of the most popular, and the overall aim of the book is to reflect on the exhibition of Byzantine art, both as an academic and popular exercise, and through the choice and discussion of individual objects. Exhibitions present a very different picture of Byzantium and its culture from works of history. The choices of object for display, their arrangement, and the underlying aims of exhibition curators and designers mean that every exhibition presents a different picture of Byzantium. Particular emphases can be placed, whether on everyday life or high court culture; Constantinople or the provinces; or claims of continuity or change over the Byzantine millennium. The essays explore aspects of the image of Byzantium that results from these choices. Given the enormous popularity of exhibitions of Byzantine objects (continued after the completion of this volume by exhibitions in Paris, Bonn and Istanbul), art has become one of the most popular and accessible means of popularizing Byzantium to a wide public audience. Hitherto there has been no general consideration of either the historiography of Byzantine exhibitions or the ways in which they have been set up to present different aspects of Byzantine culture to an academic and general public. The essays are divided into 3 sections: Exhibiting Byzantium sets the 2009 exhibition into the context of other exhibitions of Byzantine art and considers the issues involved in curating and viewing such major collections of medieval art; Object Lessons offers a set of studies of individual objects that were in the exhibition; Byzantium through its Art moves to consider Byzantine art more widely, thinking about the different ways in which objects can be used to study Byzantine culture and society. These are preceded by an introduction by the editors which sets the volume in context.

Author : Louise Tythacott
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780857452399

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The Lives of Chinese Objects by Louise Tythacott Pdf

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.

Author : Jeann MacIntosh Turfa,Georgina Muskett
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784916398

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Catalogue of Etruscan Objects in World Museum, Liverpool by Jeann MacIntosh Turfa,Georgina Muskett Pdf

A catalogue of one of the finest collections of Etruscan artifacts outside of Italy, that of Wold Museum, Liverpool. This publication is highly illustrated with over 100 plates in full colour.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004501904

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Transmissions and Translations in Medieval Literary and Material Culture by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : J. Paul Getty Museum,Jeffrey Spier
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892362158

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Ancient Gems and Finger Rings by J. Paul Getty Museum,Jeffrey Spier Pdf

Ancient Gems and Finger Rings catalogues the J. Paul Getty Museum's comprehensive and important collection of Greek, Roman, Etruscan, and Near Eastern gems. Most of these objects have never before been published, making this catalogue essential for the scholar. The volume is fully and richly illustrated—each entry includes photographs of the gem and its impression as well as a profile drawing. Where pertinent, bibliographic references and comparative material are cited.

Author : Bonnie Effros
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199696710

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Uncovering the Germanic Past by Bonnie Effros Pdf

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.

Author : David Wright
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784910853

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Bryan Faussett: Antiquary Extraordinary by David Wright Pdf

A biography of Bryan Faussett, F.S.A., (1720-1776), pioneering Kent genealogist, archaeologist and antiquary who, at his death, had amassed the world’s greatest collection of Anglo-Saxon jewellery and antiquities.

Author : Zachary Kingdon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501337932

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Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa by Zachary Kingdon Pdf

The early collections from Africa in Liverpool's World Museum reflect the city's longstanding shipping and commercial links with Africa's Atlantic coast. A principal component of these collections is an assemblage of several thousand artefacts from western Africa that were transported to institutions in northwest England between 1894 and 1916 by the Liverpool steam ship engineer Arnold Ridyard. While Ridyard's collecting efforts can be seen to have been shaped by the steamers' dynamic capacity to connect widely separated people and places, his Methodist credentials were fundamental in determining the profile of his African networks, because they meant that he was not part of official colonial authority in West Africa. Kingdon's study uncovers the identities of many of Ridyard's numerous West African collaborators and discusses their interests and predicaments under the colonial dispensation. Against this background account, their agendas are examined with reference to surviving narratives that accompanied their donations and within the context of broader processes of trans-imperial exchange, through which they forged new identities and statuses for themselves and attempted to counter expressions of British cultural imperialism in the region. The study concludes with a discussion of the competing meanings assigned to the Ridyard assemblage by the Liverpool Museum and examines the ways in which its re-contextualization in museum contexts helped to efface signs of the energies and narratives behind its creation.

Author : Christopher de Hamel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525559429

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The Manuscripts Club by Christopher de Hamel Pdf

The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. However, we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made, collected and preserved them through the centuries, and to whom they owe their existence. This entrancing book describes some of the extraordinary people who have spent their lives among illuminated manuscripts over the last thousand years: a monk in Normandy, a prince of France, a Florentine bookseller, an English antiquary, a rabbi from central Europe, a French priest, a Keeper at the British Museum, a Greek forger, a German polymath, a British connoisseur and the woman who created the most spectacular library in America—all of them members of what Christopher de Hamel calls the Manuscripts Club. This exhilarating fraternity, and the fellow enthusiasts who come with it, throw new light on how manuscripts have survived and been used by very different kinds of people in many different circumstances. Christopher de Hamel’s unexpected connections and discoveries reveal a passion that crosses the boundaries of time. We understand the manuscripts themselves better by knowing who their keepers and companions have been. In 1850 (or thereabouts) John Ruskin bought his first manuscript “at a bookseller’s in a back alley.” This was his reaction: “The new worlds which every leaf of this book opened to me, and the joy I had in counting their letters and unravelling their arabesques as if they had all been of beaten gold—as many of them were—cannot be told.” The members of de Hamel’s club share many such wonders, which he brings to us with scholarship, style and a lifetime’s experience.

Author : Kate Hill
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781843837275

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Museums and Biographies by Kate Hill Pdf

Exploring the relationship between museums and biographies, this collection of essays examines examples from the early 19th century to the present day.

Author : Marshall J. Becker,Jean MacIntosh Turfa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317194644

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The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry by Marshall J. Becker,Jean MacIntosh Turfa Pdf

The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry offers a study of the construction and use of gold dental appliances in ancient Etruscan culture, and their place within the framework of a general history of dentistry, with special emphasis on appliances, from Bronze Age Mesopotamia and Egypt to modern Europe and the Americas. Included are many of the ancient literary sources that refer to dentistry - or the lack thereof - in Greece and Rome, as well as the archaeological evidence of ancient dental health. The book challenges many past works in exposing modern scholars’ fallacies about ancient dentistry, while presenting the incontrovertible evidence of the Etruscans’ seemingly modern attitudes to cosmetic dentistry.

Author : John Philip O'Neill,Musée du Louvre,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art metal-work
ISBN : 9780870997587

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Enamels of Limoges by John Philip O'Neill,Musée du Louvre,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Treasuries of France, and other sources. The works of Limoges were created for important ecclesiastical and royal patrons. The wealth of enameling preserved from the Treasury of the abbey of Grandmont, just outside Limoges, is due chiefly to the Plantagenet patronage of Henry II and his queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. Enamels created during their reign resonate with the elegant style of the court, and the dramatic history of Henry's monarchy is evoked by such works as the.