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Item Number: 117754
Title: Exhibiting the Past : Caspar Reuvens and the Museums of Antiquity in Europe, 1800-1840
Author: Hoijtink, Mirjam
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9782503541525
Description: Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. 28cm., pbk., 200pp., 67 color, 15 b&w illus. English text. Summary: In the first decades of the 19th century the exhibition of antiquity in museums reflected a universal history of civilization, in which the idea of cross-cultural influences dominated. Hindu-buddhist civilization of 13th century Java was easily connected to that of classical Greece, and Indian Hindu-depictions were playfully related to those of Egyptian Pharaonic time. This book shows how antiquity, during and just after the Napoleonic era formed a statement in a changing world at the dawn of nationalism. The main character is the first professor of Archaeology Caspar Reuvens , director of the Museum of Antiquity in Leiden, the Netherlands (1818-1835). It emphasis on his forming years in Paris and Germany, his many travels to London, and his plans for a journey to Rome. Beside, it sheds new light on the radically changing canon of antique sculpture in a nervous Europe, that soon would be falling apart in nation states. (Papers on Archaeology from The Leiden Museum of Antiquities, 7)
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