Excalibur: Essays on Antiquity and the History of Collecting in Honour of Arthur MacGregor

Product Description

A collection of 16 papers to honour Arthur MacGregor and his work. Contents: David Berry: Vita Arthuri; The published writings of Arthur MacGregor; Lauren Gilmour: An Anglo-Saxon gold finger-ring from Abingdon, Oxfordshire; Assimina Kaniari: Wonder after modernity: 16th century visual sources, 20th century ethnographic collections and ‘transition’; Timothy Wilks: Plundered art for the collections of Charles I? The capture of Munich in May, 1632; Catherine Whistler: Collecting the overlooked: some baroque paintings from the collection of Sir Arthur Evans (1851-1941); Malcolm Baker: Collections, sculpture and the changing fortunes of an eighteenth-century portrait bust: Julian Munby: A Rare Collection: Oxford museums past and present; Jon Whiteley: The Bodleian Picture Gallery; Claire Lyons: Beauvalet de Saint-Victor’s ‘Vases grecs et étrusques’; Athena Tsingarida: The reception of the van Branteghem collection in Belgium; Kate Heard: ‘His Royal Highness the Prints of Wales’: George IV as a collector of prints; Lucilla Burn: Robert Pashley and the Pashley sarcophagus; Martin Henig and Penny Coombe: Roach Smith and the antiquities of London: the sculptures; Michele Benucci and Susanna Sarti: A private library in 19th century Rome: the sale of Giovanni Pietro Campana’s library; Claudia Wagner: Fable and history: Prince Poniatowski’s Neoclassical gem collection; Thomas Mannack: The Ancient World in the nursery: German tin figures of the 18th to 21st centuries; H.S. Torrens A forgotten provincial English museums initiative of the 1830s: The Midland counties Natural History Societies, their museums and libraries.

About the Author

Hildegard Wiegel and Michael Vickers