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Legendary Locals of Rome
Rome Area History MuseumGardner and Jeannie Wright The great-great-grandson of Rome cofounder Daniel Mitchell, Gardner Wright tells the story as his grandmother told it to him about the day Daniel Mitchell drew his own choice for the naming of Rome out of a hat.
Natural history of the Andrew Lake region, northeastern Alberta
Ross HastingsThis survey of the Andrew Lake area of northeast Alberta includes data on fauna, flora, and other aspects of this area of granite outcrops. Data were collected by the Provincial Museum of Alberta Natural History Section.
Rick Steves Pocket Rome
Rick StevesIncluded in Rick Steves Pocket Rome: Sights: the National Museum, Palatine Hill, Trajan's Column, Market, and Imperial Forums, Baths of Diocletian, Appian Way, St. Peter-in-Chains, Pilgrim's Tour of Rome, Jewish Ghetto, and Capitoline ...
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 ...
Roman Passions: A History of Pleasure in Imperial Rome
Ray LaurenceA History of Pleasure in Imperial Rome Ray Laurence. Introduction: Roman. Passions. PLEASURE AND HISTORY As a student working on a fairly impenetrable PhD thesis, I attended a lecture by Oswyn Murray at the British School at Rome.
Ancient Rome: A History
D. Brendan NagleA history of ancient Rome from its beginnings in 600 BC through the end of the seventh century AD.
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 ...
Rome: A Living Portrait of an Ancient City
Stephen L. Dyson... view of the Baths of Caracalla. Reproduced by permission from Guido Alberto Rossi and Franco Lefèvre, Rome from the Air (New York, 1989), 40. Overview of the model of imperial Rome now in the. 208 Rome.
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.
Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Richard Daniel De Puma ... Richard De Puma served as consultant for Etruscan art, as Vassos Karageorghis had helped us with Cypriot antiquities ...
From Storefront to Monument: Tracing the Public History of ...
Andrea A. Burns" This book tells the story of four of these groundbreaking museums: the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago (founded in 1961); the International Afro-American Museum in Detroit (1965); the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum in ...
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.
Religions of Rome: Volume 1, A History
Mary BeardThis book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life at Rome.
History of the Gaines family: one line from 1620 to the ...
Lewis Pendleton Gaines10, 1905, m Rome, Ga, July 21, 1933, Mary Ethel Tallent, b Cherokee Co, Ala, March 19, 1908, dau George Marion and Maggie Adele Barclay Tallent. He d Rome, Feb. 12, 1972; she resides Wayside Rd, Rome; two ch: 1630. Jo Ann Thomas ...
The Climax Of Rome
Michael GrantThe definitive study of Rome by one of the 20th century's finest ancient historians. A richly detailed portrait of Rome at the height of its glory.
Signature Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area
Dave WeinsteinThe fifteen architects profiled in this book were chosen not because they are the best the area has produced, though several are, but because their stories, taken together, provide a solid history of Bay Area residential architecture.
Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History ...
Richard ForteyReveals the hidden treasures of London's Natural History Museum and the people, research, and passions that created the museum, in a study of the social history of the scientific accomplishments of the past two centuries.
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 ...
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 ...
The provincial at Rome: and, Rome and the Balkans 80BC-AD14
Ronald SymeThis volume offers a new insight into the development of a great historian, as well as giving an exciting and immensely readable new approach to late Republican and early Imperial Roman history.
Rome: The Biography of a City
Christopher HibbertExploring the city’s streets and buildings, peopled with popes, gladiators, emperors, noblemen and peasants, this volume details the turbulent and dramatic history of Rome in all its depravity and grandeur.
A Companion to Museum Studies
PreviewMuseums. Susan. A. Crane. The history of museums is the history of a conundrum: how is what is always the same also always different? A modern museum's mandate is to collect, preserve, and present objects for the public to appreciate.
Vindication of 'The book of the Roman Catholic Church' ...
Charles ButlerGEORGE TOWNSEND, IN REPLY TO " His Accusations of History against the Church of Rome." PRELIMINARY LETTER. SIR, "V7'OUR " Accusations of History against the Church of Rome," in a series of Letters addressed to me, are highly ...
Empire of Ancient Rome
Michael BurganIn an easy-to-follow format, this volume covers the growth of Rome as a republic, the political and social forces that drove the transition to a dictatorship of caesars, the reasons for Rome's eventual decline, and what happened to the ...
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 ...
Metropolitan Review
More editionsRome from the Air Photographs by Guido Rossi; text by Franco Lefevre, Rizzoli, $2995 Seen from the air, Rome's classical beauty unveils itself in uncom- promised splendor. The city's nearly three thousand years of rich and glorious history ...
The Tomb and the Tiara: Curial Tomb Sculpture in Rome and ...
Julian GardnerThis is the first history of tomb sculpture to span the shift of the papacy cardinalate from Rome to Avignon.
Wrens, Dippers and Thrashers
David BrewerAccess to museum material was of paramount importance and I am very grateful to Dr Ross James and Mark Peck of the Royal Ontario Museum, Dr John Bates and Dr David Willard of the Field Museum of Natural History, David Agro, Dr Nate ...
A history of the Smithsonian American Art Museum: the ...
Lois Marie FinkIn recounting the history of the museum from 1846 to 1980, Fink unravels the various levels of institutional authority, power, governance, and bureaucracy and shows how people at each level influenced the fortunes of the collection.
100 European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jacob BeanJacob Bean Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). 53 PIETRO BERRETTINI, called PIETRO DA CORTONA Cortona 1596-Rome 1669 1 A Wind God Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on brownish paper. 7%, x 13 1/8 in . (1 8.9 x ...
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