
Ashmolean Museum
Complete Illustrated Catalogue of Paintings
Ashmolean Museum (Publisher)
Published on 1. June 2010
Book
Hardback
978-1-85444-187-4 (ISBN)
Description
For the first time ever, all paintings in the Department of Western Art in the Ashmolean Museum have been brought together in one volume. Every picture is illustrated and almost all are represented in colour. Biographies of all known artists in the collection are also included, making this catalogue an invaluable reference work for specialist libraries, collectors and general readers alike. The Ashmolean Museum is based on two ancient University collections, the works of art from the Bodleian Library and the artefacts from the Old Ashmolean in Broad Street. The original Ashmolean was founded in 1683 while the Bodleian Picture Gallery, where the University at one time kept most of its artefacts and works of art, dates from about 1620. The Bodleian collection was not the first museum of its kind - libraries and scholars' cabinets had included coins, antiquities, exotic artefacts and portraits since the early 1500s - but, as a collection which has been accessible to the public for nearly four hundred years, first in the Bodleian and later in the Ashmolean, it constitutes the oldest surviving public museum in Britain and one of the oldest in existence.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
1411 col, 117 b&w
Dimensions
Height: 329 mm
Width: 257 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
2338 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85444-187-4 (9781854441874)
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Content
Director's Preface; A Short History of the Ashmolean's Painting Collection; Abbreviated Benefactions and Organisation of Catalogue. Complete Illustrated Catalogue of Paintings; Artists' Biographies; Appendix of Original Frames in the Ashmolean Museum; Changes in Attribution since 1980; Index of Selected Subjects; Index of Previous Owners; Inventory Numbers.