Archaeological Institute of America. Annual Meeting (118th : 2017 : Toronto, Ont.)
Title:
Collecting and collectors from antiquity to modernity / edited by Alexandra Carpino, Tiziana D'Angelo, Maya Muratov, and David Saunders.
Published / Created:
Boston, MA : Archaeological Institute of America, 2018.
Physical Description:
viii, 252 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Sixteen papers originally presented in two colloquia and a workshop at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Toronto.
Contents:
Introduction / Alexandra A. Carpino -- The formation of the Etruscan collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston : the strategies of Edward Robinson and Rodolfo Lanciani / Helen Nagy -- The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Etruscans : collecting from the 1870s to the present / Richard De Puma -- Collecting Etruscans for California : the story of philanthropist Phoebe A. Hearst and archaeologist Alfred Emerson / Lisa C. Pieraccini -- Italian antiquities to American museums : notes on collecting at the turn of the twentieth century / Claire Lyons -- The impact of the 1970s UNESCO convention on unprovenanced Etruscan artifacts in the United States / Laetitia La Follette -- Introduction / Tiziana D'Angelo and Maya Muratov -- Romanae : collecting gems in Ancient Rome / Roberta Casagrande-Kim -- Collecting magical gems in the early modern period : from infancy to adulthood / Liliana Leopardi -- Collecting at Alnwick Castle : engraved gems in the collection of the Duke of Northumberland / Claudia Wagner -- "Fraudulent ingenuity" : Charles W. King and 19th-century collections of antique gems / Tiziana D'Angelo and Maya Muratov -- Introduction / David Saunders -- The stratigraphy of provenance / Caroline M. Rochleau -- The pitfalls and possibilities of provenance research : historic collections and the art market in the 20th century / Judith Barr -- The Tampa Poseidon = The Shugborough Neptune / Seth Pevnick -- Collecting Greek and Etruscan vases in 19th century Philadelphia / Ann Blair Brownlee -- A collaborative path for research into ancient and heritage objects / Sarah Kielt Costello and John Hopkins -- Verifying a provenance / Paul Denis -- "Said to be from" : best practices for using unscientific findspot information / Phoebe Segal -- Contributors.
Subject Terms:
Art, Etruscan -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- Congresses. | Gems, Ancient -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- Congresses. | Art objects -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- Congresses. | Art patrons -- United States -- Congresses. | Art objects -- Collectors and collecting. | Art patrons. | United States.
Form/Genre:
Conference papers and proceedings.
Contributors:
Carpino, Alexandra Ann, editor. | D'Angelo, Tiziana, editor. | Muratov, Maya, editor. | Saunders, David, editor.