Museum archetypes and collecting in the ancient world / / edited by Maia Wellington Gahtan and Donatella Pegazzano.

• Superior document: Monumenta Graeca et Romana, Volume 21
• TeilnehmendeR: Gahtan, Maia W.; Pegazzano, Donatella,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Monumenta Graeca et Romana ; Volume 21.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Museum Archetypes and Collecting in the Ancient World offers a broad, yet detailed analysis of the phenomenon of collecting in the ancient world through a museological lens. In the last two decades this has provided a basis for exciting interdisciplinary explorations by archaeologists, art historians, and historians of the history of collecting. This compendium of essays by different specialists is the first general overview of the reasons why ancient civilizations from Archaic Greece to the Late Classical/Early Christian period amassed objects and displayed them together in public, private and imaginary contexts. It addresses the ranges of significance these proto-museological conditions gave to the objects both in sacred and secular settings.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 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 / Évelyne 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 Décor 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 / Jaś Elsner -- Bibliography -- Index A. Ancient Texts Cited or Mentioned -- Index B. Place Names -- Index C. Personal Names -- Index D. Notable Greek, Latin and Egyptian Words -- Index E. General Subjects.