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Raphael’s artworks, paintings, altarpieces, drawings, tapestries, cartoons, prints, ceramics and all other artifacts derived from his works, including copies and forgeries, have been the object of an often-frantic search from his death in 1520 onwards. France, Spain, Germany, England, and Italy were the main destinations for such artworks between the 16th and the 18th centuries, while the market spread overseas from the 19th century onwards. This book is the first full exploration of this phenomenon and of the mechanisms of transmission of Raphael’s artifax through inheritance, sales, swaps and shady…
Since Raphael’s death in 1520, his artworks have been the object of a frantic, centuries-long search. This landmark book is the first to explore this phenomenon, tracing the transmission of his art through inheritance, sales, swaps, and shady transactions.
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This collection of essays highlights the enduring significance of provenance and its implications for historians and art historians, as well as students and researchers engaged in museum studies. It also offers an opportunity to demonstrate its relevance to other fields of expertise, such as conservation, visual culture studies, aesthetics, authentication and connoisseurship versus technology as a means of establishing attributions and detecting forgeries. Provenance is still of vital importance to jurisdiction, whether it concerns property law or ownership. It also remains topical because of the ongoing debates over looted art…
This collection of essays highlights the enduring significance of provenance for historians, authentication, and law. It remains vital to ownership and topical due to ongoing debates over looted art and the illicit trade in antiquities conducted by terrorist groups.
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This volume gathers together recent research from leading scholars specializing in the history of collecting. American Southern art collections, both public and private, contain rich and representative holdings of Renaissance and Baroque art which remain understudied, compared to the collections bracketing the east and west coasts of the United States. This anthology considers how these works of art were acquired for both prominent public and private collections, how they have been curated and displayed in exhibitions, and how they have also been preserved historically. Individual essays address a variety of…
Leading scholars explore the understudied history of collecting in the American South. This volume examines the rich Renaissance and Baroque art in Southern public and private collections, revealing how these works were acquired, curated, displayed, and preserved.
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It’s all Mediating
Outlining and Incorporating the Roles of Curating and Education in the Exhibition Context
It’s all Mediating: Outlining and Incorporating the Roles of Curating and Education in the Exhibition Context brings together thinkers and practitioners in the fields of exhibition curating and gallery education from different corners of Europe. The publication explores the two core functions of museums: exhibiting of the content and educational activities directed to audiences. These areas of activity – both committed to “mediating” between art and its audience – have existed since the birth of the public museum, but, as the result of professionalisation and specialisation…
This book brings together thinkers in curating and education to explore the two core functions of museums. As these fields professionalize, have they drifted too far apart? The volume encourages dialogue, examining collaboration between curators and educators.
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Curating Differently
Feminisms, Exhibitions and Curatorial Spaces
Exhibitionary spaces and curatorial strategies ideologically frame the encounter between art and its publics. For more than forty years, feminist art curating, as a practice of art interpretation and a politics of display, has intersected with the diverse area of feminist art historical research and feminist artistic practices. It is only recently, however, that a theorization of feminist art curating and feminist exhibition histories as a specific field of knowledge has emerged. Curating Differently is a collection of essays that offers critical perspectives on, and analyses of, the intersections of…
This title offers critical perspectives on, and analyses of, intersections of feminisms, art exhibitions, and curatorial spaces from the 1970s onward, bringing together case studies from Australia, Israel, Europe, and North America.
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Touching Art
The Poetics and the Politics of Exhibiting the Tree of Life
This study focusses on the exhibition of the Tree of Life, a sculpture made in Mozambique of decommissioned, dismantled weapons, created to celebrate peace and commissioned by the British Museum, chosen to be the symbol of the “Africa 2005” season of cultural events and exhibited in its Great Court between February and October 2005. This artwork was first exhibited in Maputo before being dispatched to Britain and it is presently on display at the Sainsbury African Galleries of the British Museum, in London. This dissertation moves along two converging routes:…
This study follows the Tree of Life, a Mozambican sculpture made from decommissioned weapons. It explores how its meaning changed when exhibited in its original context versus the British Museum, challenging curatorial concepts of African art.
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This volume digitally reconstructs a 15th-century Book of Hours illuminated by Robert Boyvin, which was dismembered by a notorious American dealer. Utilising the WBRM methodology, it integrates digital humanities and philological research to restore the manuscript, addressing the ethical challenges associated with manuscript dismemberment. The study examines the manuscript’s historical context, its connection to Cardinal Georges d’Amboise, and Louis de La Londe. Through provenance and dating analysis, it provides a comprehensive understanding of this cultural treasure and advocates against biblioclasm. It underscores the ethical responsibility of preserving our heritage, critiques…
This volume digitally reconstructs a 15th-century Book of Hours that was dismembered by a notorious dealer. It restores a cultural treasure, confronts the ethical challenges of manuscript destruction, and advocates for the preservation of our shared heritage.
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This book highlights the present status of manuscript collection in the different repositories of India, and also suggests some remedial measures which are required to be adopted for the proper conservation, care and management of manuscripts. It showcases the nature of base material, ink, pigments, binding materials, writing and illustration techniques used in different manuscripts, given the importance of having thorough knowledge about the chemical composition of different materials before adopting any kind of conservation practice. As dating of manuscript is a very difficult task, a great variety of…
This book details the conservation, care, and management of Indian manuscripts. It covers their materials, writing techniques, and dating methods, as well as preventive measures for preservation, including ancient indigenous practices and the hazards of using chemicals.
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In looking at the history of collecting, one may be excused for regarding it as an activity in which, traditionally, women have shown little interest or in which they have not been involved. As the present volume shows, women—particularly aristocratic women—not only resisted this discrimination through the ages, but also built important collections and used them to their own advantage, in order to make statements about their lineage, power, cultural heritage or religious preferences. That is not to say that there was not an increasing number of middle-class women who…
Challenging the perception of collecting as a male activity, this volume shows how women from the 16th to 19th centuries built important collections. They used them to make powerful statements about their lineage, cultural heritage, and power.
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English, Colonial, Modern and Maori
The Changing Faces of the Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1932-2002
How and why do works make their way into a public art collection? Who decides what will be hung on the walls, placed on plinths, displayed in cases? These important, but seldom discussed, questions lie at the heart of this ‘cultural biography’ of the 70 years during which the Robert McDougall Art Gallery was Christchurch’s civic art gallery. The book explains how the collection came together, how it developed, and how the public, and artists and critics, reacted to it. The book is presented…
How do works enter a public art collection? Who decides what hangs on the walls? This cultural biography of Christchurch’s Robert McDougall Art Gallery explores 70 years of collection, controversy, and the influential personalities who shaped a nation’s art.
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Beyond Boundaries
East and West Cross-Cultural Encounters
Beyond Boundaries: East and West Cross-Cultural Encounters is a collection of essays which span several countries, centuries and disciplines in their exploration of East-West cultural exchanges and interactions. The chapters are arranged in chronological and thematic order, and encompass the cutting edge research of a diverse group of international scholars. The subjects range from archaeology, art history and photography, to conservation, sociology and cultural studies, with cross-disciplinary examples of classical, modern and contemporary periods. The book seeks to inspire new ideas and stimulate further scholarly debate on the convergence, dissimilarities…
This collection of essays explores East-West cultural exchanges across centuries and disciplines. It examines the mutual influences of the visual arts and material culture of Asia, Europe, and the US, seeking to inspire new ideas and scholarly debate.
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Hunting the Collectors
Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, Art Galleries and Archives
This volume investigates Pacific collections held in Australian museums, art galleries and archives, and the diverse group of 19th and 20th century collectors responsible for their acquisition. The nineteen essays reveal varied personal and institutional motivations that eventually led to the conservation, preservation and exhibition in Australia of a remarkable archive of Pacific Island material objects, art and crafts, photographs and documents. Hunting the Collectors benchmarks the importance of Pacific Collections in Australia and is a timely contribution to the worldwide renaissance of interest in Oceanic arts and cultures.…
This volume investigates Pacific collections in Australian museums and the diverse 19th- and 20th-century collectors responsible. Essays reveal the motivations that led to the preservation of a remarkable archive of Pacific Island art, objects, and documents.
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Dynastic Ambition, the desire to advance one’s family fortune and reputation, is the reason for all kinds of sometimes bewildering behaviour and activities. Within the study of the history of collecting, many and various motives have been given that underlie the patronage and collecting of art, from personal to public, private to princely, self-interest to philanthropy. A growing interest in the commissioning, collecting and display of art in the early modern period has led to new discussions of the motivation of princes and rulers for the collecting and display of…
For ruling houses, collecting was a political act driven by dynastic ambition. A family’s collection attested to the age and power of its lineage. This volume presents articles exploring this phenomenon from the Roman Republic to the eighteenth century.
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Nature can be collected in many forms and shapes: live animals have been locked up in cages, displayed in zoos and menageries and their hides and dried body parts have been used as part of installations in galleries and studies. Plants from far-away countries have been cultivated in botanical gardens and in hothouses. Furthermore, the depiction of medicinal plants and of prized animals was regarded as an important part of the decorative schemes, in an attempt to bring nature indoors. Recent research has also shown that artificialia and naturalia were…
Connecting art, nature, and science, these essays trace the collection and display of objects from early wunderkammern to the 18th century. They reveal a world where art and nature were intrinsically linked, charting the path to their modern divisions.
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The 1879 Theft of Royal Ms 16 E VIII from the British Museum
Wars and Tolkien’s Teacher’s Role
In June 1879, Royal MS 16 E VIII, a unique 13th-century manuscript, vanished from the Round Reading Room of the British Museum after being returned by a Prussian reader. This essay synthesises 20 years of rigorous research since the author's previous publications, offering new insights into this significant case. The study examines the intense academic rivalries between German and French scholars after the Franco-Prussian War and the profound cultural significance of Royal MS 16 E VIII, which contained the sole copy of "Le Voyage de Charlemagne à Jérusalem…
In 1879, a priceless manuscript containing the only copy of the oldest French poem vanished from the British Museum. This study explores the intense academic rivalries after the Franco-Prussian War that fueled the theft and provides a reconstruction of the lost text.
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American Museums and the Persuasive Impulse
Architectural Form and Space as Social Influence
In American Museums and the Persuasive Impulse, Professor Ragsdale assesses American museums as means of visual persuasion. He demonstrates that museums, their contents, and their manners of display are as capable of influencing visitors as speeches or advertisements and that an awareness of their social influence provides an insight into the cultural roles of museums. The book considers a diverse array of museums ranging from such national cultural icons as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute to such city museums as the Philadelphia Museum of Art…
More than just collections, museums are powerful engines of persuasion. This book reveals how their contents and displays influence visitors as effectively as any speech or advertisement, uncovering their profound cultural roles and power.
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Hunting the Collectors
Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, Art Galleries and Archives, Second Edition
This volume investigates Pacific collections held in Australian museums, art galleries and archives, and the diverse group of 19th and 20th century collectors responsible for their acquisition. The nineteen essays reveal varied personal and institutional motivations that eventually led to the conservation, preservation and exhibition in Australia of a remarkable archive of Pacific Island material objects, art and crafts, photographs and documents. Hunting the Collectors benchmarks the importance of Pacific Collections in Australia and is a timely contribution to the worldwide renaissance of interest in Oceanic…
Who were the collectors behind Australia’s vast Pacific collections? This volume reveals the complex motivations that shaped these remarkable archives of Oceanic art, a vital contribution to the worldwide renaissance of interest in Pacific cultures.
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China in the Frame
Materialising Ideas of China in Italian Museums
Mechanisms of representation of the cultural Other and their connections with processes of self-expression constitute the core of China in the Frame. This original ethnographic study of Chinese-themed displays of artworks in a selection of permanent and temporary exhibitions in Italy highlights specific forms of the materialisation of ideas of cultural identities. The Other represented by these displays is China, the identity of which is nowadays perceived by a wider western public, if not unambiguously, at least more closely, thanks to faster and intensified means of communication and interaction. The…
This ethnographic study of Chinese art displays in Italy highlights how representing the cultural Other becomes a process of self-expression. It shows how in representing China, Italy is induced to question and represent its own cultural identity.
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To Inspire and Instruct
A History of Medieval Art in Midwestern Museums
This collection of essays, which derive from a symposium held at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005, tells the story of how medieval art was collected by both individuals and institutions in the American Midwest. This book will appeal to both medievalists and scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth century American history. In addition, it will also appeal to scholars who are interested in museum studies and the history of collecting. The essays in the first section, “Collecting and Displaying Medieval Art,” consider the formation of medieval art collections at…
This collection of essays tells the story of how medieval art was collected by individuals and institutions in the American Midwest, considering the motives of donors, the formation of major collections, and evolving curatorial practices.
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