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A Catalogue of the Ashmolean Museum,: Descriptive of the ...
Ashmolean MuseumAshmolean Museum, Philip Bury Duncan. He thus very clearly explains the plan of his arrangement of the contents of the Museum : " The first division proposes to familiarize the eye to those relations " of all natural objects which form the basis ...
Illustrations of ancient state and chivalry from manuscripts ...
Ashmolean MuseumAshmolean Museum William Henry Black. A° DOMINI 1565. 7° ELIZABETH. REGINE. THE QUENE LYING AT WESTMYNSTER. AND FOR THAT ST. GEORGES DAY WAS THIS YERE ON THE MOROWE AFTER EASTERDAY, THEREFORE ...
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Arthur MacGregorThis guide provides a historical introduction to Oxford's Ashmolean Museum which is recognised for the its collection of antiquities, Western and Eastern art, coins, medals and casts from classical statues.
The Ashmolean Museum: a brief history of the museum and its ...
Arthur MacGregorThis book traces the eventful history of the Ashmolean and its collections from its origin as cabinet of curiosities, to proto-scientific institution at the turn of the eighteenth century and to dusty irrelevance at the opening of the ...
Old Babylonian texts in the Ashmolean Museum: texts from ...
Stephanie DalleyMaking basic material available to cuneiform scholars, this volume contains a detailed catalogue and full indices of 291 cuneiform clay tablets, ranging in date from c. 1900-1600 B.C., in the Ashmolean Museum.
Sir John Evans 1823-1908: antiquity, commerce and natural ...
Arthur MacGregor14-16. 12 Ashmolean Museum, inv. no. AN 1927.27 18. 1 3 For the Sturrock sale, see note 92, below. For the Potarch axe see Peter Karl Schmidt and Colin B. Burgess, The Axes of Scotland and Northern England, Prahistorische Bronzefunde ...
The Alliterative Romance of Alexander: From the Unique ...
ReadFrom the Unique Manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum Joseph Stevenson ... REV. PHILIP BLISS, D. C. L., and REV. BULKELEY BANDINEL, 1846. Correspondence of Sir Henry Unton, Knt., Ambassador from Queen Elizabeth to Henry IV.
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain
DKCromwell Museum (Huntingdon) 212 D-Day Museum (Portsmouth) 173 Dales Countryside Museum (Hawes) 389 ... Folk Museum 390 Groam House Museum ( Rosemarkie) 535 Grosvenor Museum (Chester) 314,315 Hands on History ...
Great Britain
Preview... Centre 354 Birmingham Museum & art Gallery 475, 477 Black Watch Museum 883 Blackwell arts & Crafts house 618 ... Museum 643 Groam house Museum 924 Grosvenor Museum 585 handel house Museum 157-8 herschel Museum of ...
Miniatures: a selection of miniatures in the Ashmolean Museum
Richard John Boileau WalkerEdmond 1983. Mary Edmond, Hilliard and Oliver, London. Edmond 1978-80. ' Limners and Picturemakers', Walpole Society, XLVII , pp. 60-242. Finsten 1981. Jill Finsten, Isaac Oliver, New York. Foskett 1964. Daphne Foskett, John Smart: The ...
Scotland
Josephine BuchananKeil 219 Kelso 191 Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (Glasgow) 169, 170, 171 Kelvingrove Park (Glasgow) 169 ... Museum 283 Groam House Museum 289 Harwell's House Museum 187 Hawick Museum 190 Highland Folk Museum 288 ...
Rick Steves Pocket Paris
Rick StevesIncluded in Rick Steves Pocket Paris: Sights: the Orangerie Museum, Rodin Museum, Cluny Museum, Army Museum and Napoleon's Tomb, Pompidou Center, Carnavalet Museum, and Picasso Museum Walks and Tours: the Historic Paris Walk, Louvre Tour, ...
Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts
Bettina Messias Carbonell... Histories and Identities in the Museum 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 Introduction Memory, Distortion, and History in the Museum SusanA. Crane Museum Matters Gyan Prakash Reality as Illusion, the Historic Houses that Become Museums Mónica ...
Nature Museum
Angela LeeperIntroduces a natural history museum, exploring who works there and what they do, different types of exhibits, and other things to do in a museum.
The Museum in America: Innovators and Pioneers
Edward Porter AlexanderFor any student or museum professional interested in the history of the museum, this volume is the place to start.
Time Out New York
Preview... Chinese in America Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust Museum ofSex Museum ofthe City ofNew York Museum ofthe Moving Image N Neue Galerie New Museumof Contemporary Art New YorkBotanical Garden ...
The Museum Experience
John H FalkThis book is an essential reference for all museum professionals and students of museum studies, and has been used widely for higher education courses in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., and has been translated into Japanese and Chinese.
Iron and Steel in Ancient Times
Vagn Fabritius BuchwaldFlemming Rieck Silkeborg Museum. Christian Fischer Skanderborg Museum, Herbert Madsen, Mariann Hahn-Thomsen Skjern-Egvad Museum, Torben Egeberg Hansen Varde Staalvaerk, Robert Thomsen Vejle Museum, Per Kristian Madsen ...
The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections: A Museum for ...
John WalshPaul Getty, 1965 This book appears on the occasion of the opening of the Getty Center, which includes a new building for the ]. Paul Getty Museum. The Museum is dedicated to the task Mr. Getty put in such modest terms: interesting people in ...
Museum languages: objects and texts
Gaynor KavanaghFrom these, she develops a new communication model for museums which embraces the whole museum experience, the visitor as an individual and active creator of meanings, and the museum team as enablers. In chapter S, Dr Alan Radley ...
The Museum
Susan VerdeThe idea that posing, laughing, and curious questions are all appropriate museum behavior may be a new one for both children and parents, and knowing this is sure to make for more enjoyable museum visits." —School Library Journal "For ...
Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from ...
David W. PenneyAccompanies an exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum, February 12-May 17, 2015; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, July 5-Sept. 13, 2015; Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, October 8, 2015-January 3, 2016; Toledo Museum of Art, ...
The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics
Tony BennettUsing Foucaltian perspectives The Birth of the Museum explores how the public museum should be understood not just as a place of instruction, but as a reformatory of manners in which a wide range of regulated social routines and ...
Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Paintings: English ...
Denise AllenMasterpieces ofthe Paul Getty Museum is a series of seven superbly illustrated volumes that present the finest works from the Museum's ... 60) The J. Paul Getty Museum's paintings collection, featured in this volume, ranges from the ...
Fast forward: contemporary collections for the Dallas Museum ...
Dallas Museum of ArtIn this handsome book, the Dallas Museum of Art celebrates three remarkable private collections of contemporary art that were donated in 2005, presenting them in context with masterworks already owned by the museum.
The Legacy: South Florida Museum
Thomas Peter BennettJunior Science Museum Collection, ASFM; Junior Science Museum Scrapbooks, Discovery Place, SFM. 19. Junior Science Museum Scrapbooks, “Armand Spitz,” SHT, 1960 clip. 20. David E. Whisnant and Anne Mitchell Whisnant, Small Park, ...
Greek vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum
J. Paul Getty MuseumThis is the sixth in a series that documents the vast collection of Greek vases in the Getty Museum. Eight essay--in English, German, and Italian--shed light on a number of objects from the Museum's fine collection.
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