The Ashmolean Museum was founded in 1683; it is the world's first University museum and the oldest public museum in Britain. It is situated in the heart of Oxford, surrounded by the many colleges which make up Oxford University. Over the centuries the Ashmolean has undergone re-locations and...
Recently I was asked to speak at the reopening of the glorious Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The power of the ancients: Bettany Hughes contemplates the vanity of her profession as she outlines the reasons why we must continue to engage with our very distant past Encyclopedia browser ? ▲ ashlar...
Ashmolean Museum (æʃˈməʊlɪən; ˌæʃməˈlɪən) n (Named Buildings) a museum, attached to Oxford University and founded in 1683, noted for its paintings and archaeological collections [C19: named after EliasAshmole(1617–92), English antiquary who donated the...
where a loan exhibition of treasured drawings from Oxford’s University’s Ashmolean Museum is on view through September 17th.Great British Drawings from the Ashmolean Museumoffers over a hundred drawings and works on paper from the past 300 years. The show was selected by Colin Harrison, Senior ...
The first image to greet the visitor at the entrance to this exhibition, arranged across three galleries in Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, is a life-sized photo portrait of Jeff Koons in his New York studio. Standing on a plinth, he gazes out at the viewer, one hand holding a deep-blue ...
Exhibition Review: The English Prize. The Capture of the Westmorland. An Episode of the Grand Tour. An exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum (17 May - 27 August 2012).doi:10.5334/pia.419Victoria DonnellanUbiquity PressPapers from the Institute of Archaeology...
The most beautiful statues: The taste for antique sculpture, 1500-1900 : an exhibition held at the Ashmolean Museum from 26 March to 10 May 1981 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 1 作者:Francis Haskell,N. Penny 年份: 1981 收藏 引用 批量引用 报错 分享 ...