Author: Francis Arundale
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Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Author: Laura Coyle
Publisher: Scala Books
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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- Published to coincide with an exhibition celebrating the 75th anniversary of William A. Clark's bequest of more than 800 objects from his private collection.

Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 820

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Author: Jason Felch
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547538022
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 397

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A “thrilling, well-researched” account of years of scandal at the prestigious Getty Museum (Ulrich Boser, author of The Gardner Heist). In recent years, several of America’s leading art museums have voluntarily given up their finest pieces of classical art to the governments of Italy and Greece. Why would they be moved to such unheard-of generosity? The answer lies at the Getty, one of the world’s richest and most troubled museums, and scandalous revelations that it had been buying looted antiquities for decades. Drawing on a trove of confidential museum records and candid interviews, these two journalists give us a fly-on-the-wall account of the inner workings of a world-class museum, and tell a story of outlandish characters and bad behavior that could come straight from the pages of a thriller. “In an authoritative account, two reporters who led a Los Angeles Times investigation reveal the details of the Getty Museum’s illicit purchases, from smugglers and fences, of looted Greek and Roman antiquities. . . . The authors offer an excellent recap of the museum’s misdeeds, brimming with tasty details of the scandal that motivated several of America’s leading art museums to voluntarily return to Italy and Greece some 100 classical antiquities worth more than half a billion dollars.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “An astonishing and penetrating look into a veiled world where beauty and art are in constant competition with greed and hypocrisy. This engaging book will cast a fresh light on many of those gleaming objects you see in art museums.” —Jonathan Harr, author of The Lost Painting

Author: Erik Hornung
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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"This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, which includes artefacts from nearly 2000 years before the Christian era. Objects such as coffins, tombs, masks, jewellery, papyri, sarcophagi and monumental and small-scale sculpture reveal the reverence and awe with which the Egyptians considered the mystery of death. The essays in this book explore Egyptian art history, customs and worship, with specific focus on the Amduat, a book devoted to the pharaoh's 12-hour journey to the afterlife. Additional writings detail the background of the collection and focus upon the role of art in ancient Egypt."--Amazon.

Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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Author: Samuel Birch
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385131588
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.

Author: British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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