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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"history of collecting"”.
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The Encyclopedic Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Rudolfine Kunstkammer as Expressions of Power
… collections were created as repositories of art, technology, ethnographic curiosities and natural wonders. Collecting first became a widespread practice among Italian humanists of the late Renaissance who, influenced by the work of Pliny, were driven by the desire to understand the world …
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Agostino Scilla. Percorso artistico e contesti
La presente tesi di dottorato mira a fare chiarezza sul percorso artistico e collezionistico del pittore Agostino Scilla (1629-1700), poliedrica figura di intellettuale tra Messina, sua città natia, e Roma, in cui visse gli ultimi venticinque anni della sua esistenza.
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Fragments and Assemblages: The Display of Ancient Sculpture in the Vatican’s Museo Chiaramonti
… begin organising the Museo Chiaramonti in a wing of the Vatican’s Belvedere Courtyard. The result was a new museum display of ancient sculpture, the first that included fragments on a wide scale, while at the same time restorations continued to play an important role. It is this duality between …
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To wear and to see: object biographies and the history of mobility in the late nineteenth-century/early twentieth-century Western Indian Ocean
… aims to determine how the biographies of objects contribute to the history of mobility in the region of the Western Indian Ocean in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century through four case studies of material culture from East Africa that are institutions in the United States. …
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Self-fashioning, Consumption, and <em>Japonisme</em>: The Power of Collecting in Tissot’s <em>Jeunes Femmes Regardant des Objets Japonais</em>, 1869
… study examines self-fashioning and the practice of collecting in Second Empire Paris as manifest in James Tissot's Jeunes femmes regardant des objets japonais (1869, Cincinnati Museum of Art). The painting, exhibited in the Salon of 1869, conspicuously portrays Tissot's own collection of exotic …
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Collecting Renaissance Decorative Art in Britain 1850-1914
… interplay between private and public collections of Renaissance decorative art in Britain 1850-1914, to establish the role that emerging networks of collectors, curators and dealers played in shaping the demand for Renaissance art objects and establishing the scholarly canon. It seeks to provide …
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Coins and colonialism between South Asia and Britain: tracing numismatic networks of collecting from field to museum
This thesis presents a history of coin collecting in colonial India by British and Indian collectors and scholars in the late nineteenth to the early to mid-twentieth centuries. Taking an object biography approach, I recount the journey of coins from the ground up to their acquisition to UK …