Maia Wellington Gahtan

Museum Archetypes and Collecting in the Ancient World Maia Wellington Gahtan

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: Maia Wellington Gahtan, Ph. D. (Yale University, 1995) is Program Director, MA Museum Studies at the Istituto Lorenzo de Medici. She has published articles and books on museology and the interplay between intellectual history and the representational arts. Donatella Pegazzano, Ph. D. (Universita degli Studi di Roma e Firenze, 2000), professor at the Universita degli Studi di Firenze, has published articles and books in the fields of the history of art and the history of collecting. Contributors are: Sarah Bassett, Alexandra Bounia, Jas Elsner, Massimiliano Franci, Francesca Ghedini, Nathaniel Jones, Ann Kuttner, Alessandra Lazzeretti, Paolo Liverani, Ida Gilda Mastrorosa, Margaret M. Miles, Richard Neudecker, Evelyne Prioux, Giulia Salvo, Josephine Shaya and Lea Stirling."Table of Contents: Contents Preface and Acknowledgements "Maia Wellington Gahtan & Donatella Pegazzano" Abbreviations List of Illustrations and Photo Credits Notes on Contributors Museum Archetypes and Collecting: An Overview of the Public, Private, and Virtual Collections of the Ancient World "Maia Wellington Gahtan and Donatella Pegazzano" 1 Towards the Museum: Perceiving the Art of Others in the Ancient Near East "Massimiliano Franci" 2 Greek Temple Treasures and the Invention of Collecting "Josephine Shaya" 3 Collecting the Past, Creating the Future: Art Displays in the Hellenistic Mediterranean "Margaret M. Miles" 4 Hellenistic Court Collecting from Alexandros to the Attalids "Ann Kuttner"" 5 Poetic Depictions of Ancient "dactyliothecae" "Evelyne Prioux 6 The Culture of Collecting in Roma: Between Politics and Administration "Paolo Liverani" 7 Archetypes of Collecting in the Roman World: Antiquarianism, Gift Exchange, Identity and Time-Space as Parameters of Value "Alexandra Bounia" 8 Verres, Cicero and Other Collectors in Late Republican Roma "Alessandra Lazzeretti" 9 Collectables, Antiques and Sumptuary Trends in Ancient Roma: A Look around the Dining Halls of the Late Republic and Early Empire "Ida Gilda Mastrorosa" 10 Private Art Galleries in Roma: Literary and Archaeological Evidence "Francesca Ghedini and Giulia Salvo" 11 Temple Inventory and Fictive Picture Gallery: Ancient Painting between Votive Offering and Artwork "Nathaniel Jones" 12 Collecting Culture: Statues and Fragments in Roman Gardens "Richard Neudecker" 13 The Opportunistic Collector: Sources of Statuary Decor and the Nature of Late Antique Collecting "Lea Stirling" 14 Collecting and the Creation of History "Sarah Bassett" Afterword. Framing Knowledge: Collecting Objects, Collecting Texts "Jas Elsner" Bibliographies Indices"Publisher Marketing: Museum Archetypes and Collecting in the Ancient World offers the first general overview of the reasons why ancient civilizations from Archaic Greece to the Early Christian period amassed objects and displayed them together in public, private and imaginary contexts.