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This essay provides an analysis of the Andaman Islands exhibit at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886. It explores the ways in which a display of near-life-size clay models, complete with indigenous-made manufactures, presented a... more
In May 1936 eleven small objects that had arrived a few days earlier at the port of Piraeus aboard the ‘Sorrento’ were added to the Benaki Museum inventory book with the numbers 2411 to 2420 and 2910. They were part of a donation of 452... more
This chapter implements a neuroscientific approach to the psyche of collectors. It is by a board certified neurologist and psychiatrist. The file uploaded is a final proof with minor alternations that were made for the book itself.... more
The 2020 International Directory of Corporate Art Collections has been completely revised and is now available. The Directory highlights information on over 700 art programs in workplaoce settings and non-traditional spaces around the... more
Videol-Link: https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/naturgemaelde_kulturforschung_kolonialprogramm_die_reisen_der_brueder_schlagintweit_in_indien_und_dem_himalaya?nav_id=8409 Die Forschungsreisen der drei Gebrüder Schlagintweit nach... more
Статья посвящена судьбе коллекции античных памятников, принадлежавшей одесскому штабс-капитану Е.А. Шуманскому, предложенной в начале XX в. для приобретения Императорскому Эрмитажу, отклоненной, но частично представленной на 12... more
By the early 1980s, many life scientists had begun to maintain small collections of cryopreserved tissues for their own specific research purposes. It became apparent that these materials could be successfully reused as new techniques and... more
Silvana editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo (Milano), 2007
History of collecting seminars, The Wallace Collection, 13 June 2011
This obituary and tribute chronicles the life and career of organologist, scholar and curator Jeremy PS Montagu. It was published in the Galpin Society Journal, March 2021, vol. LXXIV
Paper given for the 150th anniversary of the French National Museum of Archaeology (2017) at Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Presentazione della conferenza tenuta in preparazione alla visita alla mostra allestita in Palazzo Reale a Milano (17 ottobre 2019 – 1° marzo 2020), 18 dicembre 2019. A cura della Biblioteca comunale di Villa di Serio. Storia della... more
The Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University, Department of Art History at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies at Tel Aviv University, and Maria and Michael Zetlin Museum of... more
How did early twentieth-century university scholars and museum curators perceive the buildings of peasant society? How did they rebuild them into museum cottages according to contemporary scholarly and museum ideas? In 1913, the... more
Par Stéphane Loire, conservateur en chef au département des Peintures du musée du Louvre. Relié. 23,6 x 29,3 cm. 584 pages. 570 illustrations dont 160 en couleurs. ISBN 2-07-011828-2. Prix : 69,90 € Après un premier tome consacré à... more
Winifred Lamb served as honorary keeper of Greek antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum from 1920 to 1958. She first met Sir Sydney Cockerell at the sale of the Hope antiquities at Christie’s in July 1917. Later that year she was invited... more
Installed as an artist’s project for Melbourne Now (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 23 October 2013 – 23 March 2014), The gallery of air was a room filled with hundreds of things, each of which variously held an idea of air: from... more
Musée National du Moyen Âge in Paris in the Context of Interest in Mediaeval Culture in France during the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century and the Nineteenth Century
Die Leidenschaft und der Sozialcharakter des Sammlers sind, um es mit Walter Benjamin zu sagen, nicht mehr diejenigen des Kindes. Das bürgerliche Stadthaus als Ort „fremder“, durch Erwerb und Auswahl angeeigneter Kunstobjekte bietet eine... more
Die Leidenschaft und der Sozialcharakter des Sammlers sind, um es mit Walter Benjamin zu sagen, nicht mehr diejenigen des Kindes. Das bürgerliche Stadthaus als Ort “fremder”, durch Erwerb und Auswahl angeeigneter Kunstobjekte bietet eine... more
A Glimpse into the history of the Neuchâtel Ethnographic Museum.
Regard sur les collections japonaises du musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel.
Regard sur les collections japonaises du musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel.
De hunebedden zijn de oudste, zichtbare monumenten van Nederland en ze kennen een lange traditie van onderzoek. Al in 1547 schreef Schonhovius (Antoon van Schoonhove, ca. 1500-1557) een bericht over een van de Drentse hunebedden.1Echt... more