The Collector's Voice

by Pearce, Susan M.; Bounia, Alexandra

• ISBN13: 9781859284179
• ISBN10: 1859284175
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Scolar Pr

Summary

The Collector's Voice is a major four-volume project which brings together in accessible form material relevant to the history and practice of collecting in the European tradition from c. 1500 BC to the present day. The series demonstrates how attitudes to objects, the collecting of objects, and the shape of the museum institution have developed over the past 3000 years. Material presented includes translations of a wide range of original documents: letters, official reports, verse, fiction, travellers' accounts, catalogues and labels.Volume 1: Ancient Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Alexandra BouniaVolume 2: Early Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Kenneth ArnoldVolume 3: Imperial Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Rosemary FlandersVolume 4: Contemporary Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Paul Martin

Table of Contents

General Preface to Series	viii
Acknowledgements	xi
List of Abbreviations	xii
Introduction	xiii
Susan Pearce
Alexandra Bounia
I Voices from the distant past
British Bronze Age burial mounds discussed	3	(6)
Richard Colt Hoare
William Borlase
Edward Cunnington
Excavations in the Derbyshire Peak District	9	(3)
Thomas Bateman
Verses on Barrow Excavation	12	(3)
Stephen Isaacson
Descriptions of the finding of Bronze Age Hoards	15	(8)
Information on the Iron Age Burial at Hummanby, Yorkshire	23	(5)
Thomas Sheppard
Iron Age Material from Bulbury, Dorset, Described	28	(3)
Edward Cunnington
The Gift exchange Tradition Description	31	(3)
Herodotus
Gift exchange as Social relationship in the Odyssey	34	(2)
Gift to men, in the Odyssey	36	(2)
The prestigious genealogy of objects in the Iliad	38	(2)
The role of craftsmen	40	(2)
Diodorus
Craftsmen and the Gods in The Iliad and The Odyssey	42	(2)
Competition in material Wealth: Herodotus Discusses King Croesus	44	(3)
Palace Treasuries in Homer	47	(6)
II Greek voices
The notion of Evidence in Material Distinctions	53	(3)
Thucydides
The idea of 'archaeology' in Plato	56	(2)
The practice of 'archaeology' in Strabo	58	(2)
The relics of the Mighty Dead, as Described	60	(3)
Herodotus
Plutarch
The role and Decoration of temples: Olympia	63	(4)
The role and Decoration of Temples: the Parthenon	67	(4)
Temple visiting, Described	71	(4)
Herodas
Exotic objects as rites of Passage	75	(3)
Treasuries and the city-state: the testimony of Pausanias	78	(6)
The Mouseion in Aristotle's Lyceum	84	(3)
The Museum of Alexandria	87	(3)
Hellenistic collectors: Aratus of Sicyon	90	(2)
Hellenistic colectors: Attalus of Pergamum	92	(5)
III Roman voices
Roman acquaintance with Greek art, discussed	97	(4)
Plutarch
Livy
The development of art History and criticism in the Roman World	101	(4)
Petronius' Trimalchio: an Ignorant Connoisseur	105	(6)
The collection of Asinius Pollio	111	(3)
A letter from Cicero to one of his Purchasing agents	114	(4)
Letter from Cicero on his collection	118	(5)
The Emperor Augustus as collector	123	(2)
Verres: The Archetype of the Passionate collector	125	(4)
Perception of collecting psychology, as seen	129	(3)
Pliny
Collecting Values and vices as seen by Martial	132	(3)
The passion for murrhine crystalware, recorded	135	(2)
Pliny
The Roman art Market	137	(3)
Public Displays of Works of art, recounted by Pliny	140	(3)
A Private Picture Gallery, Described by Philostratus	143	(3)
Temporary Exhibitions in the city of Rome	146	(3)
Pliny and Natural History Collecting: A Source of Inspiration for Renaissance Collectors	149	(3)
'Textual Collections' and Pliny's Influence on later collectors	152	(2)
Pausanias and Cultural Tourism	154	(2)
'Curator' as a technical term, as Suetonius records	156	(2)
Women Collectors: Extravagance, folly and Fetishism, as Martial shows	158	(5)
IV Early medieval voices
The author of the Ruin Description life and Wealth	163	(2)
Notions about treassure in Beowulf	165	(4)
The Story of the Volsung Treasure	169	(6)
The Magical Power of the Cursed Sword Tyrfing	175	(5)
Wealth in Early Welsh Imagianation and Society	180	(3)
The status on Show in the late Roman and Byzantine city of Constantinople	183	(4)
A Late Roman Treasure Hoard buried near Thetford, Suffolk	187	(3)
Wilfred of Northumbria and His Relic-Collecting Activities in Rome	190	(3)
Relic collections listed in the Resting Places of the Saints	193	(2)
The Exeter Cathedral relic Collection	195	(2)
The Pilgrim traffic which Went to view the Relics Gathered in Constantinople	197	(2)
Carolingian art in the Abbey of St Denis, Paris	199	(6)
V Voices from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries
Abbot Suger Considers the art treasures in the Abbey Church of St Denis, Paris	205	(6)
Bishop Henry of Winchester brings ancient Status from Rome to Winchester	211	(3)
A goldsmith at work	214	(3)
A Description of the City of Rome	217	(3)
Master Gregory
The will of William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester	220	(3)
Inventory of Valuable objects at Exeter Cathedral in 1327	223	(3)
The author of Pearl shows how the aesthetic of treasure has Mystical significance	226	(4)
The treasures of the Cathedral church at Canterbury	230	(3)
Giovanni Dondi Discusses the collecting of Classical Antiquities	233	(4)
Galeazzo Sforza describes the Medici Palace in 1459	237	(3)
Piero de Medici views his Collection	240	(3)
The inventory of the Medici Palace at the Death of Lorenzo the Magnificent	243	(5)
Bibliography	248	(11)
Index	259