Guide To The Collection

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Presents the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago in Illinois, featuring over 7000 objects spanning five centuries of Western and Eastern civilizations. Provides information about exhibitions, events, the collection, educational programs, and membership. Posts contact information via mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail.

Over a short ten-year time-span, Hodinkee has positioned itself as the preeminent and most distinguished destination for modern and vintage wristwatch enthusiasts. Exiting a career in finance, Ben Clymer decided to fuse his horological and writing passions in order to start a blog discussing everything from new products to vintage wristwatch auctions. Titling his endeavor after the Czech word hodinky, which means ‘little watch,’ Clymer sought to create a platform that was casual and accessible to all levels of enthusiasts—within a few years The New York Times dubbed him the “High Priest of Horology.”

Carol Alabaster focuses on developing a collection with high-quality materials while saving time and money.

Prepared as a quick reference for use at a crime scene, the Evidence Collection Field Guide reviews the procedures for collecting and preserving 25 alphabetized categories of evidence in a concise, easy to locate manner. This handy reference will provide field personnel a method of verifying techniques and processes to ensure consistency and accuracy in collecting evidence for later use during forensic examination, and in prosecution.

Roman copies and adaptations of Greek sculpture / Seán Hemingway -- The decoration of house and villa / Paul Zanker -- Luxury art / Christopher S. Lightfoot -- Shrines of the lares and offerings to other divinities / Paul Zanker -- Roman Egyptomania / Christopher S. Lightfoot -- Tombs and funerary monuments / Paul Zanker -- Imperial and private portraits / Paul Zanker -- Gladiatorial games, sports, and the military / Paul Zanker -- Architectural elements / Paul Zanker -- A selection of Roman works and their modern histories / Joan R. Mertens.

This monumental new book is the first to celebrate the greatest and most iconic paintings from the encyclopedic collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, one of the largest, most important, and most beloved museums in the world. This impressive volume's broad sweep of material, all from a single museum, makes it at once a universal history of painting and the ideal introduction to the iconic masterworks of this world-renowned institution. More than 1,000 lavish color illustrations and details of 500 masterpiece paintings, created over 5,000 years in cultures across the globe, are presented chronologically from the dawn of civilization to the present. These works represent a grand tour of painting from ancient Egypt and classical antiquity and prized Byzantine and medieval altarpieces, to paintings from Asia, India, Africa and the Americas, and and the greatest European and North American masters. The Metropolitan Museum of Art includes and introduction and illuminating texts about each artwork written specially for this volume by Kathryn Calley Galitz, whose experience as both curator and educator at the Met makes her uniquely qualified. European and American artists include Duccio, El Greco, Raphael, Titian, Botticelli, Bronzino, Caravaggio, Turner, Velázquez, Goya, Rubens, Rembrandt, Brueghel, Vermeer, David, Renior, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, Degas, Sargent, Homer, Matisse, Picasso, Pollock, Jasper Johns, and Warhol. The artworks are arranged in rough chronological order, without regard to geography or culture, offering a visual timeline of the history of painting, from the earliest examples on pottery jars made over five thousand years ago to canvases on which the paint has barely dried. Freed from the constraints imposed by the physical layout of the Museum, the paintings resonate anew; and this chronological framework reveals unexpected visual affinities among the works. For those wishing to experience the unparalleled breadth and depth of the Met's collection, or study masterpieces of painting from throughout history, this important volume is sure to become a classic cherished by art lovers around the world.

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