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Antique Eighteenth-Century Map of Berkshire, from The Antiquities of Englan
2008-04-26 06:38:00 BERKSHIRE Drawn from the Best Authorities and Regulated by Astronomical Observations By T. Kitchin Geogr. This 1786 (approx.) map includes Reading, Abingdon, Faringdon, Wantage, Wallingford, East Ilsley Lamborn, Hugerford, Newbury, Okingham, Windsor, Henley, Maidenhead and many more places.(read more...)
The grand Door of Barfreston Church in Kent., from The Antiquities of Engla
2008-04-23 11:00:00 On some of these arches is commonly over the key-stone represented God the Father, or our Saviour surrounded with angels; and below a melange of foliage, animals, often ludicrous, and sometimes even indecent subjects. Partly of this sort is the great door at Barfreston Church in Kent. (preface, p. 111)(read more...)
Musée du Louvre - Louvre Museum antiquities to be showed at Louvre Macau ç
2008-04-16 01:57:00 An free entry exhibition in the Macao Museum of Art showcasing 130 Ancient Greece works of art from the Louvre. The exhibition begins from 10th April, and it will last for 3 months.Macao-leg exhibition was categorized into four sections, namely Life in Ancient Greece, Spirit of Competition of the Ancient Greeks, Religious Worship in Ancient Greece and Souls of Ancient Greece. The exhibits include ancient Greek sculptures, pottery, masks and gravestone, etc. The Macao Museum of Art will be the last stop of this Asia regional tour.法國羅浮宮åšç‰©é¤¨13-0件奧é‹èµ·æºåœ°çš„å¤å¸Œè‡˜-文物於10日起在澳門è—è¡-“åšç‰©é¤¨é€²è¡Œç‚ºæœŸä¸‰å€‹æœˆ-的展覽，å…費開放。展å-“ä¸ä¹è—è¡“å²ä¸Šé‡è¦ä½œå“-，包括著å的大ç†çŸ³é›•-åƒã€Šæ‰‹æŒéµé¤…的競技者ã-€‹ã€ã€Šå¸•ç‰¹è¾²ç¥žå»Ÿçš„é›…å…-¸å¨œé›•åƒã€‹åŠã€Šé˜¿èŠ™ç¾…ç‹„-黛特雕åƒã€‹ç‰ã€‚今次åç-‚ºã€Œæ–‡æ˜Žåºæ›²â€”—羅浮å®-®çè—å¤å¸Œè‡˜ç‘°å¯¶å±•ã€å±•-覽由澳門民政總署ã€æ—…é-Šå±€ã€æ³•åœ‹é§é¦™æ¸¯åŠæ...-
By: SeeMacau
Ornament: Cornucopia, from The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783), add
2008-03-25 07:15:00 This antique typographic ornament was used as a chapter tail-piece at the end of a section of the preface. You could also use it as a decorative page element. This was scanned from a 1780s book, and is not perfect: I have not tried to clean it up or make it look new. It shows a horn of plenty with fruit and leaves in it.(read more...)
Rare Roman Statue Is Extraordinary Highlight Of Christie?s Antiquities Spri
2008-03-04 00:38:00 On June 4, Christie?s New York is pleased to offer an exquisite Roman statue of the goddess Tyche (estimate on request). Standing 31 ½ inches high, and executed in the rarest of materials: porphyry. The statue was formerly in the private collection of Dr. Elie Borowski, collector and connoisseur of ancient art, who acquired it in 1967. It was on loan to the sculpture museum Liebighaus in Frankfurt, Germany from 1980-1986, and later exhibited at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto from 1986-1991
Egypt ?to copyright antiquities?
2007-12-26 12:15:00 Source: BBC NEWS Egypt ‘to copyright antiquities’ “Commercial use” of the sphinx will be controlled under the law Egypt’s MPs are expected to pass a law requiring royalties be paid whenever copies are made of museum pieces or ancient monuments such as the pyramids. Zahi Hawass, who chairs Egypt’s Supreme ...
Christie?s Antiquities & Ancient Jewelry Auction New York - Thursday, 6 Nov
2007-12-07 22:08:00 Christie's sales of Antiquities and Ancient Jewelry totaled $9.3 million yesterday and were 80% sold. The highest price for the day was the powerful monumental sandstone portrait of the Pharaoh Ramesses II, which sold for $517,000. The Ancient Jewelry sale, the 9th annual installment of this rarified category and the exclusive domain of Christie's, achieved its highest total ever at $2,029,350, far beyond the high estimate. The 43 lots of ancient gems and finger rings from a European private collection shattered all pre-sale expectations, highlighted by an emerald ring stone with a Julio-Claudian portrait achieving $85,000.
A Roman Skyphos & A Collection of Gem Stones to Lead Christie?s Antiquities
2007-12-03 17:58:00 A ROMAN SKYPHOS AND A COLLECTION OF GEM STONES FROM A 19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN COLLECTION TO LEAD CHRISTIE’S ANTIQUITIES AND ANCIENT JEWELRY SALES Antiquities & Ancient Jewelry Thursday 6 December 2007 New York - Christie’s New York is delighted to offer two beautiful sales of Antiquities and Ancient Jewelry on December 6. Both will regale collectors and art ...
Arabs in Gaza Have Destroyed Jewish Antiquities
2007-09-17 23:30:00 An Arab propagandist in the guise of an American academic threw all academic objectivity to the winds in a relatively recent book, which she seems to hope will qualify her for tenure at Columbia University. One Nadia Abu al-Haj has written Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society (University of Chicago Press, 2001), which makes a number of outrageous claims. Such as no Jewish past in the land of Israel, such as only a minority of Jews in Jerusalem in Herod's time, etc. One of her claims is that Israeli archeologists systematically disregard artifacts and remains of cultures other than Jewish and that Israeli archeologists may even systematically --or out of habitual negligence-- destroy non-Jewish remains. In fact, the reality is the opposite. One notable case is that of a Jewish inscription in the Hebrew and Greek alphabets that still existed as recently as 20 years ago but has since been destroyed, apparently by Islamic fanat...
By: Emet m\'Tsiyon
Greek Fires Kill 12 More and Threaten Antiquities
2007-08-27 07:38:00 Scores of villages were evacuated in fires that turned the earth to white ash and the air to a soupy ochre, but not everyone obeyed: in the hilltop town of Karnasi here on the hard-hit Peloponnesian peninsula, Vassiliki Panagapoulou, 56, doused her
By: Get rich
Greek Fires Kill 12 More and Threaten Antiquities
2007-08-27 07:38:00 Scores of villages were evacuated in fires that turned the earth to white ash and the air to a soupy ochre, but not everyone obeyed: in the hilltop town of Karnasi here on the hard-hit Peloponnesian peninsula, Vassiliki Panagapoulou, 56, doused her
By: Get rich
Greek Fires Kill 12 and Threaten Antiquities
2007-08-27 04:22:00 Scores of villages were evacuated in fires that turned the earth to white ash and the air to a soupy ochre, but not everyone obeyed: in the hilltop town of Karnasi here on the hard-hit Peloponnesian peninsula, Vassiliki Panagapoulou, 56, doused her
By: Get rich
Greek Fires Kill 12 and Threaten Antiquities
2007-08-27 04:22:00 Scores of villages were evacuated in fires that turned the earth to white ash and the air to a soupy ochre, but not everyone obeyed: in the hilltop town of Karnasi here on the hard-hit Peloponnesian peninsula, Vassiliki Panagapoulou, 56, doused her
By: Get rich
Antique map of Kent, from The Antiquities of England and Wales (Vol III) (1
2007-08-13 10:21:00 This map of Kent was published in 1783; it shows, in the Lathe of Sutton, Woolwich, Greenwich, Eltham, Lewisham, Brownley, Dartford, S. Mary Cray, Dunton, Farmingham, Sevenoke [Sevenoak], Westerham. Sutton, Edenbridg [Edenbridge]; in the Lathe of Aylesford, Allhollowes, Cliff, Gravesend, Cowley, Halstow, Osterland Chatham, Meopham, Haling, Wortham, Crouch, West Malling, Tunbridg [Tunbridge], Padlings pounf, Lattingford St., Tunbridgewells [Tunbridge Wells], Linderadg, Rochester, Capston, Guildsted, Maidston, Leneham, Loose; in the Lathe of Scray, Newington, Milton, Sittingborn, Newnham, Feversham, Boughton, Shanford, Chilham, Charing, Wye, Ashford, Friginfastel, Smarden, Staplehurst, Goudhurst, Cranbrooke, Bidenden, Highstreet, Bromley Greene, Tenterden, Apledore, and The Rother [river]; in Sliepey Isle, Shireness, Quinborough; in the Lathe of St. Augustine, Whitstable, Reculver, Upstreet, S. Nicholas, Burchington, Thanet I., S Peters, Marget, Northforeland, Ramsgate, Great Cliffs, ...
77.---British Camp at caer Caradoc.---From Roy's Military Antiquities., fro
2007-08-03 11:21:00 Major-General William Roy produced The Military Antiquities of the Romans in Britain in 1793. The Roman walls, the Saxon towers, the Norman cathedral, which have successively crowned this hill, have perished, but here it remains, with all the peculiar character of a British fortress still impressed upon it (Fig. 23). Such a fortress is the Herefordshire beacon (Fig. 76) which forms the summit of one of the highest of the Malvern hills, and looks down upon that glorious valley of the Severn which, perhaps more than any other landscape, proclaims the surpassing fertility of ‘Old England.’ Such is, in all likelihood, the castellated hill near Wooler, in Northumberland, which rises two thousand feet above the adjacent plain, with its stone walls, and ditches, and crumbling cairns. It was in these hill-forts that the Britons so long defied the Roman power; and one of them (near the confluence of the Coln and Teme, in Shropshire) is still signalised by the name of one of the...
Antique Map of Oxfordshire, from The Antiquities of England and Wales (1786
2007-07-26 06:45:00 The map of Oxfordshire from Boswell’s 1786 Antiquities. OXFORDSHIRE Drawn from a SURVEY and Regulated by Astronl. Observatns. By T. Kitchen Geogrr.(read more...)
Greece regains antiquities
2007-04-19 08:48:00 ATHENS, Greece, April 18: Six centuries-old ceremonial pottery pieces that had been owned by a British collector were returned to Greece Wednesday.
By: newkerala.com
Interview: Italy's Antiquities Prosecutor Fiorilli
2006-12-29 18:52:02 Italy's antiquities prosecutor, Maurizio Fiorilli, has become the darling of the media in the past year helping to persuade the American public, and particularly the art world, to rethink the ethics of holding onto Italy's cultural patrimony with words like: "Until now we have dreamed, we have slept. Now it is time to wake up." Words meant to be heard back home in Italy, perhaps, but shot around the world via the Los Angeles Times.An antiquities movement, a wave was created, essentially, and a signing of repatriation agreements with major US museums followed. It came at a time when people, as an escape from senseless US wars they did not vote for, suddenly took interest in an antiquities conspiracy trial in Rome. Visuals of ancient art in the media -- images of the humans we once were -- became huge with meaning. Read the rest of this article...
Antiquities smuggling: 'A crime against humanity'
2006-12-14 00:36:02 She's 2,500 years old, stunningly beautiful and at the center of the latest smuggling scandal to have sullied the world of antiquities.On Monday the Los Angeles-based J. Paul Getty Museum announced it would return a sixth century B.C. marble statue of a young woman to Greece following claims by the Greek government that the artwork was illegally excavated and taken out of the country without proper authority.The statue is one of two ancient artifacts on their way back to the Aegean from the display cases of the Getty Villa in Malibu -- the section of the J. Paul Getty Museum specializing in classical remains from Greece and Italy. The other is a fourth century B.C. gold funerary wreath."It is the appropriate way to resolve complex ownership claims involving ancient works of art," declared a museum statement. Read the rest of this article...
Rare Greek Antiquities Go on Display
2006-12-07 12:28:01 Warned that the barrage of Persian arrows would hide the sun at Thermopylae, the Spartan hero Dienekes replied with cool bravado, It will be pleasant to fight in the shade.Known for their terse, unflinching way of speaking, these consummate warriors from the Lakonia region of Greece were known as laconic, or sparing of words. The term also applies to their art.'Athens-Sparta,' opening Wednesday at the Onassis Cultural Center, presents 289 archaeological artifacts from the paramount city states of ancient Greece to illustrate their very different social and artistic legacies.Read the rest of this article...
Getty museum walks out of talks over looted antiquities
2006-12-02 18:21:02 The battle between the world's richest museum and the Italian state took a turn for the worse yesterday when the Getty museum in California walked out of talks over the restitution of looted antiquities.Michael Brand, the director of the Getty, has sent a closely argued, six-page letter to Francesco Rutelli, the Minister of Culture, saying he is "deeply saddened" by the failure to reach agreement after more than a year of talks, and announcing the end of "these present negotiations". Mr Rutelli's office said the letter had been received "with surprise and disappointment".At the centre of the dispute is an enormous marble and limestone statue of the goddess Aphrodite, sold to the Getty for $18m (£10m) by a British antiquities dealer who was jailed last year. The statue, one of the glories of the Malibu museum, is claimed by the Italians to have been dug up by grave robbers in Morgantina, Sicily, and illegally exported to Switzerland, where the British dealer Robin Symes sold it on...
Apollonia: Antiquities Under A Hotel And Old Houses
2006-10-04 23:30:05 Tombs from antiquity are waiting to be discovered under old houses in Apollonia and a modern hotel has been built on part of the Western Necropolis, Professor Andre Laronde from Sorbonne University in Paris, told the Society for Libyan Studies today.Professor Laronde described the excavations of the French Mission in Apollonia near to Al-Bayda, 115 miles north-east of Benghazi and 12 miles north of Cyrene.Established in the 7th century BC, Apollonia was the port of Cyrene, for more than a millennium. It was founded by Greek colonists and became a significant commercial centre in the southern Mediterranean. It remained autonomous from Cyrene during the Roman period, and even surpassed it as the major city of the region in the 6th century AD. The theatre is sited in a particularly picturesque location by the sea. Other buildings include the Eastern, Central and Western Basilicas and the Byzantine Palace.Read the rest of this article... |
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