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Collections Care and Stewardship: Innovative Approaches for Museums considers best practices and innovations related to documenting collections with regard to movement and safe handling of items for transport, display, photography, and treatment; collections storage; and information-sharing within and beyond the museum.

Museums --- Antiquities --- Art objects --- Manuscripts --- Collection management. --- Collection and preservation. --- Curatorship. --- Educational aspects.

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Transformation presents a diachronic investigation providing a rich case study as well as an approach tracing the contours of a category of Roman material culture defined by the Roman period technique of openwork carving. As the first comprehensive assemblage of openwork vessels from Classical to late Antiquity, this work offers primary evidence documenting a key example of the fundamental shift from naturalism to abstraction in which inscriptions are transformed and word becomes image. A glass blower herself, Hallie Meredith poses questions about process, tactility and reception providing a clear picture of the original contexts of production and reception demonstrated by the Roman technique of openwork carving. In an in-depth analysis of the corpus as a whole, typologies (old and new), imagery, geometric patterning and inscriptions as the major divisions among openwork decorative elements, basic design principles are identified, non openwork carving and its relation to openwork decoration are discussed, as are the function, handling, display, movement and provenance of openwork vessels throughout the Roman Empire. Art historians and archaeologists working on the transition from Classical to late Antiquity, as well as scholars focusing on these and later periods of study, can fruitfully apply this approach to visual culture. This work shows how openwork vessels are a reflection of a wide-reaching Roman cultural aesthetic.

Glassware, Roman --- Roman glassware --- Coupes2ram --- Goblets --- Verrerie romaine2ram --- Objets d'art antiques2ram --- Art objects, Ancient --- Échanges culturels --- Exchange of persons programs --- Antiquité. --- Antiquity

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The volume highlights the unique status of Lisbon as an entrepôt for curiosities, luxury goods and wild animals. As the Portuguese trading empire of the fifteenth and sixteenth century expanded sea-routes and networks from West Africa to India and the Far East, non-European cargoes were brought back to Renaissance Lisbon. Many rarities were earmarked for the Portuguese court, but simultaneously exclusive items were readily available for sale on the Rua Nova, the Lisbon equivalent of Bond Street or Fifth Avenue. Specialized shops offered West African and Ceylonese ivories, raffia and Asian textiles, rock crystals, Ming porcelain, Chinese and Ryukyuan lacquerware, jewellery, precious stones, naturalia and exotic animal byproducts. Lisbon was also a hub of distribution for overseas goods to other courts and cities in Europe. The cross-cultural and artistic influences between Lisbon and Portuguese Africa and Asia at this date will be re-assessed --

Art objects, Renaissance --- Decorative arts, Renaissance --- History --- History --- 1500-1599 --- Lisbon (Portugal) --- Lisbon (Portugal) --- Portugal --- Lissabon. --- Portugal. --- Asien. --- Afrika. --- Description and travel --- In literature.

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In contrast to other histories of ancient art that typically privilege well-preserved works of ceramics or stone, Luxus offers an integrated contextual analysis of artifacts fashioned from a wide variety of luxury materials, which survive in far greater number than is typically supposed. These include gold and silver, semiprecious hard stones, and organic materials, such as ivory, fine woods, amber, pearl, coral, and textiles. Examining some of the finest surviving examples of ancient craftsmanship, renowned expert Kenneth Lapatin approaches objects in these diverse media from a variety of viewpoints, providing a valuable model for a more pluralistic approach to visual culture with the greater goal of reinvigorating the study of ancient art and society. As its title implies, Luxus is richly illustrated, containing over 200 images of superb works located in collections throughout the world. Each plate is accompanied by extensive documentation and discursive commentary. An introductory chapter explores the ideologies and uses of the luxury arts in ancient Greece and Rome, considers ancient debates about their value, and traces their decline in modern historiography. The book then goes on to address a broad range of luxury goods, such as intaglios, cameos, vessels, and statuettes, providing a full and multifaceted account of luxury in the ancient world.

Ancient Greek [culture or style] --- Roman [ancient Italian style] --- Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- Luxuries --- Art objects, Greek --- Art objects, Roman. --- Jewelry, Classical --- Goldwork, Ancient. --- Silverwork, Ancient. --- Produits de luxe --- Objets d'art grecs --- Objets d'art romains --- Bijoux antiques --- Orfèvrerie antique --- Silverwork, Ancient --- Greece --- Rome --- Grèce --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Roman [ancient Italian culture or period] --- Orfèvrerie antique --- Grèce --- Antiquités --- antieke cultuur --- luxury

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Sculpture --- art history --- sculpture [visual work] --- Classical --- Greco-Roman --- History of civilization --- Rome --- Greece --- Sculpture, Classical --- Sculpture, Greek --- Art objects --- Sculpture antique --- Sculpture grecque --- Objets d'art --- Reproduction --- Exhibitions. --- Copying --- Social aspects --- Exhibitions --- Copie --- Expositions --- Aspect social --- klassieke oudheid --- beeldhouwkunst --- kopieën --- Amelung, Walther --- Griekenland --- Europa --- Japan --- 73.032.6 --- Griekse en Romeinse beeldhouwkunst ; en hun kopieën --- Beeldhouwkunst ; Klassieke Oudheid ; reproducties op groot en klein formaat --- Tentoonstellingscatalogi ; Milaan ; Fondazione Prada --- Greek sculpture --- Classical sculpture --- Classical antiquities --- Beeldhouwkunst ; Oud-Griekse beeldhouwkunst --- sculpture [visual works] --- reproductions --- copying --- reproductions [derivative objects] --- klassieke oudheid (historisch tijdvak) --- kunst (kopie, kopiëren) --- kunst (+ kopie, kopiëren) --- klassieke oudheid (historisch tijdvak). --- sculptuur. --- kunst (+ kopie, kopiëren). --- Amelung, Walther. --- Griekenland. --- Rome. --- Europa. --- Japan. --- sculptuur