The Classical Collection of the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago Format: Paperback

Edited by Gloria Ferrari, Christina M. Nielsen, and Kelly Olson

ISBN 10: 0935573259 / ISBN 13: 9780935573251

Published by University of Chicago press, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Classical Collection of the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago Format: Paperback
• Publisher: University of Chicago press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0935573259
• ISBN 13: 9780935573251
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Smart Museum's Classical collection began developing in the 1890s and now consists of approximately eight hundred pieces, including large-scale statuary and floor mosaics, vases, figurines, coins, lamps, and other utensils. The first extensive study of the Smart's collection, this catalogue presents a selection of the museum's antiquities and provides a historiographical introduction that traces the formation of the collection in relationship to the pedagogical ideas of the University of Chicago. Serving as a factual and functional guide, this catalogue serves classicists and art historians, as well as the museum's many visitors.

About the Author

Gloria Ferrari is professor emerita of classical archaeology and art at Harvard University. Her many books include Figures of Speech: Men and Maidens in Ancient Greece, also published by the University of Chicago Press.