Ashmolean museum united kingdom (34 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Egyptians are one of the most fascinating among the peoples of the ancient world. They are also in many ways the most easily misunderstood. Ancient Egypt seeks to explain their distinctive culture in its historical context. Covering the essential aspects of Egyptian prehistory and history, life and literature, religion and art, and including a concise bibliography. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In 'Medieval England' the archaeological collections of the Ashmolean Museum serve to illustrate a comprehensive series of historical themes from the reign of Alfred the Great to the end of the Wars of the Roses. A sequence of topics has been chosen which characterise these crucial six centuries of English history; social, economic and political developments are reviewed; the evolution of trade, industry and agriculture is traced; the progress of warfare, religion, literacy, dress, sports and pastimes are all examined. The text is supplemented by eighty-five illustrations (including twelve pages of colour) of exhibits from the Ashmolean's superb medieval collections, giving tangible form to the concepts examined. The whole forms a well-integrated presentation of archaeological and historical evidence. The authors - a member of the Museum's Education Service and the curator of the collections - combine scholarly insight with an easy style in an attractive and accessible booklet for the general reader. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Jewish Journey tells the history of the Jewish people from antiquity to modern times through 22 objects from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, brought together here for the first time. Many of the objects are little-known treasures and all 22 have remarkable stories. Spanning 4000 years of history and covering 14 different countries, the objects trace the evolution of Jewish life and culture from its earliest beginnings in Ancient Mesopotamia through time and space to the modern day. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. …

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The battle of Pavia in 1525, in which Francis 1, King of France, was defeated and captured, had tremendous impact throughout Europe; it has been described as "marking the end of the Middle Ages". The contemporary panel painting which formed part of the foundation collection of the Ashmolean Museum in 1683 is one of the most dramatic and detailed images of Renaissance warfare. This book tells the story of the battle and of the making of this famous painting. This is the third title to appear in a uniform series of booklets illustrating and discussing major paintings in the Ashmolean's collections. The painting, which includes numerous foot-soldiers and horsemen representing phases of the imperial assaults on the French besiegers shows a view of the city from the north giving a detailed, visual account, in a compressed synopsis, of the main recorded events of the Battle. Groups and individuals are identified with numbered labels or by their heraldic banners. 'The Battle of Pavia' includes notes by the conservator who has worked on the picture and a chapter by Timothy Wilson on the heraldry depicted by the artist. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Softcover, 8 1/4 by 6 inches, 80 pages, 35 color plates. That is plates as full page color illustrations, not dishes. Although, actually, there are illustrations of plates as well. Plates of plates. In color. The covers have only very very little wear and the pages are clean.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Fine.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. paperback, pictorial card covers, a tightly bound copy, date inked to the head of the half-title page otherwise with clean and unmarked contents. Illustrated throughout in colour, 120pp.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. pictorial gloss card covers, previous owner dated signature to the verso of the front cover else a clean and unmarked copy, illustrated, 96pp.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. pictorial gloss card covers, second edition revised, a very well preserved tightly bound copy, clean and unmarked. Illustrated, 64pp.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. large paperback, 11" x 8 3/4", pictorial card covers, light score mark to the foot of the front cover else a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, illustrated in full colour, 240pp. A heavy volume which may require additional postage if ordered from locations outside the United Kingdom, Please enquire for details prior to placing an order.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. 32 pages, illustrated. Unused copy.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A comprehensive catalogue detailing the life and work of the artist William Blake, arranged chronologically and outlining the development of his influence and career from apprenticeship to his final years. Blake was a radical, challenging both perception and belief, he created words and images that had a luminous quality, strongly influenced by an intuitive inner vision, he valued imagination over reason and his work reflects this. Throughout the 1770s and 1780s Blake produced a substantial collection of drawings, engravings and engraved copper plates of monuments in Westminster Abbey while an apprentice to James Basire, the official engraver to the Society of Antiquaries. Following his apprenticeship he was accepted as a student in the Antique School of the Royal Academy, where he became an outspoken advocate for the work of Michaelangelo and Raphael. In the 1790s, his most inventive and prolific period, he developed a revolutionary method of etching his poetry and design together in relief on the same copper plate, that he called 'Illuminated Printing'.He used this to produce his most celebrated works, including the Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Europe a Prophecy. A centerpiece to this collection will be his Manuscript Notebook, in which he wrote the Songs of Experience, one of greatest treasures of the British Library. During his final years, Blake pursued an interest in the Renaissance artist-printmakers, Durer, van Leyden, Bonosone and others, and reawakened interest in the technique of pure line engraving. This led to commissions for Blake to produce illustrations for the Book of Job and Dante. Above all, it was the commission to produce the small woodcut illustrations to Virgil's Pastorals that would deeply affect and inspire the early work of the group of young artists and engravers known as the Ancients and this is a celebration of his influence upon their imagery, painting in tempera, and graphic techniques. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. boards have light wear along edges and at corners. corners lightly bumped. foredge, head and foot have very light soiling.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. paperback, pictorial card covers, a tightly bound copy with an unmarked text.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Camille Pissarro (18301903) is one of the most celebrated artists of 19th-century France and a central figure in Impressionism. Considered a father-figure to many in the movement, his work was enormously influential for many artists, including Claude Monet and Paul Cezanne. This major exhibition, of works drawn from the Ashmolean's collections as well as international loans, will span Pissarro's entire career. Pissarro continued to explore and refine his approach and technique throughout his life. The exhibition will look at how he responded to the previous generation of artists including Corot and Daubigny, to his relationship with the Impressionists with whom he allied himself and encouraged in the face of rejection by the established art world. Never ceasing to question his method, he developed close working relationships with Gaugin, for whom he was a mentor, and Cezanne for whom he was both teacher and pupil. It also includes a section on his family life he was a devoted husband and father and his four sons all became artists. The Ashmolean has numerous sketches and photographs of the family. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. paperback, pictorial gloss card covers, 11" x 8 3/4", a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, illustrated in colour, 278pp. A heavy volume which may require additional postage if ordered from locations outside the United Kingdom, Please enquire for details prior to placing an order. …

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Ashmolean Museum, the oldest public museum in Britain, houses the University of Oxford's unrivalled collection of art and antiquities from Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Three centuries and more of unbroken history render the Ashmolean one of the most venerable institutions of its kind in the world. When, in 1683, Elias Ashmole endowed the University of Oxford with the already famous Tradescant collection, many of the exhibits had by that time been on display for fifty years, extending the origins of the collection to the very threshold of the Stuart era. This book traces the eventful history of the Ashmolean and its collections from its origin as cabinet of curiosities, to proto-scientific institution at the turn of the eighteenth century and to stagnation at the opening of the nineteenth; the ensuing century saw the Museum's fortunes rise, fall and rise again to culminate in its refounding as the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology as the result of the tireless energy of Sir Arthur Evans (Keeper 1884-1908) and powerful patrons such as C.D.E. Fortnum. The interplay between the Ashmolean and its sister institutions in Oxford during this period are also examined. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Stapled Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Fifth Edition. The book is very good with slight edge wear and a slight damp stain to edge of first couple of pages.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. paperback, 11" x 9 3/5", faintly creased to spine, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, illustrated in colour and b&w, 160pp, Because of weight a request for additional postage will be made if ordered from certain locations outside the United Kingdom, please enquire before placing an order.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Very light shelfwear to cover. Tight and uncreased, internally pristine.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Wood Engravings of Lucien Pissarro & a Bibliographical List of Eragny Books by Lora Urbanelli, Softcover, First UK Edition (1994). Book in very good condition. It has slight ageing to the page edges, and a little general shelf wear. The original price sticker is included to the bottom of the back cover. A very good, tight copy overall. (See pictures). The book has an Ex Libris sticker to the inside front cover, confirming that it comes from the Library of Simon Brett (1943-2024), the much acclaimed artist renowned for his work in wood engraving.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 2004 Large Soft Cover near fine book, corners and edges lightly rubbed. No inscription. 335 pages with indexes. Appendix. Artist's Biographies.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good +.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Softcover in Fine condition, 31 pages with 20 beautiful full color illustrations. This is a hard to find publication. A selection from the woodblock-print series "one hundred views of famous places in Edo" by Ando Hiroshige, 1797-1858. These 20 prints were published in 1856-1859, the last series that Hiroshige designed. The series title is the longer vertical cartouche in the upper right hand corner of each print, and beside it is the individual title for the print giving location. The pigments used for Japanese woodblock prints are fugitive and damaged by exposure to light, which means unfortunately that they cannot be often exhibited to the public.…

HARDCOVER. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Extra large and heavy Square 4to in colour printed thick boards, 237pp on glossy art paper, colour plates, etc . [CONDITION: A well preserved NEW unmarked and unread copy ] . __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…