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The Ashmolean, a collection of collections.(Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, England)
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology is housed in an impressive neo-Grecian building designed by Charles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863) in 1845, which remains one of the most imposing buildings in Oxford. It was built as the University Galleries to house paintings, prints, drawings, and antiquities. Today, many of the collections are among the finest of their kind, drawing visitors from all over the world. The museum itself was established in 1683 in a smaller building nearby and is the oldest public museum in Great Britain, and perhaps the world. The collection ranges from flint instruments made about half a million years ago to twentieth-century ceramics, metalwork, ...
- The Ashmolean Museum: a brief history of the institution and its collections....
- Antiquity James, N. March 1, 2002 700+ words
ARTHUR MACGREGOR. The Ashmolean Museum: a brief history of the institution...w figures. 2001. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum; 1-85444-149-3 hardback...treasures to illustrate The Ashmolean Museum. This appealing booklet has...
- Oxford Ashmolean Museum reopens after costly repairs.
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon) November 10, 2009 700+ words
...at the weekend.AaOxford's Ashmolean Museum swung its doors open after a...at the weekend.AaOxford's Ashmolean Museum swung its doors open after a...building not only doubled the Ashmolean's display space, but also...
- Spoliation advisory panel rule that painting held by the ashmolean museum in...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire March 2, 2006 700+ words
...rule that painting held by the ashmolean museum in oxford was not a sale forced...painting in the possession of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Portrait of a Young...Government, and welcomed by the Ashmolean Museum. Notes to Editors 1.The Panel...
- A new Ribera drawing among Michelangelos: a drawing in the Ashmolean Museum...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Bambach, Carmen C. September 1, 2009 700+ words
...Michelangelo and his school at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the present author...these drawings are also in the Ashmolean Museum, they can all be studied side...physiognomic type seen in the Ashmolean sheet, it can be suggested...
- Picture galleries outside London: The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Bruce, Donald December 1, 1996 700+ words
...seemly Hellenism of Cockerell's Ashmolean Museum: at least until the unconscionably...contemporaneous works in the Ashmolean, since the ballroom is decorated...Oxford, the history of the Ashmolean Museum is intricate and puzzling...
- Metaphor wins three-year job for Ashmolean Museum.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Design Week August 4, 2005 700+ words
Oxford's Ashmolean Museum has appointed London exhibition...is largely an object museum. The Ashmolean is about crossing times and civilisations...audience,' says Greenburg. THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM OF ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY * One of...
- The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum.(Book...
- Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly Pesta, Duke March 22, 2008 700+ words
...Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum. Cambridge: Cambridge University...and the British Museum--the Ashmolean also houses a remarkable collection...Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum will also appe
- The drawings of Michelangelo and his followers in the Ashmolean Museum.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News August 1, 2007 700+ words
...drawings of Michelangelo and his followers in the Ashmolean Museum. Joannides, Paul. Cambridge U. Pr. 2007 491...raisonnee of all the Michelangelo drawings in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, as well as the drawings of his followers...
