Study photographs of ancient minor arts objects. 19--?

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Study photographs of ancient minor arts objects. 19--?

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An assembled collection of modern photographs of ancient works of the minor arts, chiefly from the Greek and Roman periods, Greek Archaic through the late Roman Empire (6th cent. BC-6th cent. AD). Object types include: arms and armor, athletic equipment, furniture, jewelry, lamps, loomweights, masks, mirrors, models, molds, musical instruments, ornaments and appliqués, scales and weights, seals and stamps, textiles, toys, utilitarian objects, vessels, and votive objects. The collection contains photographs from numerous sources, including commercial vendors and photographers, museum collections, auction houses, research institutions' archives, and scholars' archives and collections. Of particular importance are the photographs reproducing the contents of the James Tassie collection of casts of ancient gems at the Victoria and Albert Museum. One of the few sets of photographs documenting this collection, this corpus is important for the study of ancient gems, the history of gem collecting, iconographic sources of neoclassical images, and the formation of 18th century taste. Significant scholars' archives contained in the collection include those of Giovanni Becatti and Ludwig Goldscheider. In addition, the collection contains selected prints of objects found in excavations carried out by Bryn Mawr College at Murlo, Italy; other photos were acquired from the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Among commercial vendors and photographers, the most important sources are Alinari (including the Anderson and Brogi archives), Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, Bulloz, Christie's, Photographie Giraudon, Hirmer Verlag, Sotheby's, Max Hutzel, Barbara Bini, Alison Frantz, and Emile Serafis.

174 boxes (ca. 6,818 photographic prints) : b&w, some col. ; 35 cm. and 47 cm.

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Getty Research Institute

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Administrative History The Getty Research Institute (GRI) is dedicated to the study of the visual arts, approaching the topic from broad historical and cultural perspectives. The GRI's goals are to promote innovative scholarship in the arts and humanities, to bridge traditional academic boundaries, and to provide a unique environment for research, critical inquiry, and debate. The GRI is an operating program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, an international cultural and philanthropic organization se...

Frantz, Alison ca. 20. Jh.

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Serafis, Emile.

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Bini, Barbara

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Victoria and Albert Museum

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Tassie, James, 1735-1799

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James Tassie (1735-1799) modeller and portrait medallionist, after training at the Glasgow Academy of Art moved to Dublin and then London where, in early 1785 fuelling the neo-classic rage, he made a series of original portrait reliefs of contemporary figures using a glass paste, a technique which now bears his name, Tassie. From the description of Portrait medallion of Sir Robert Walpole [realia]. [between 1785 and 1799?] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 701815776 ...

Becatti, Giovanni, 1912-1973

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Goldscheider, Ludwig, 1896-1973

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Art historian, poet and translator, and co-founder, director, designer and editor of the Phaidon Press. From the description of Ludwig Goldscheider papers, 1911-1981 (bulk 1925-1973). (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84215135 Biographical/Historical Note Ludwig Goldscheider (1896-1973) was a notable historian of art, a poet and translator, and one of the most influential art book publishers of the twentieth...

Hutzel, Max

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American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

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