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The British Museum
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 454

The British Museum

  • Categories: Art

The British Museum is the oldest publicly funded museum in the world. This volume tells the story of the collections, the buildings that house them, and the people who have administered and curated them since its foundation in 1753.

The Parthenon Sculptures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 152

The Parthenon Sculptures

  • Categories: Art

The Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum are unrivaled examples of classical Greek art, an inspiration to artists and writers since their creation in the fifth century bce. A superb visual introduction to these wonders of antiquity, this book offers a photographic tour of the most famous of the surviving sculptures from ancient Greece, viewed within their cultural and art-historical context. Ian Jenkins offers an account of the history of the Parthenon and its architectural refinements. He introduces the sculptures as architecture--pediments, metopes, Ionic frieze--and provides an overview of their subject matter and possible meaning for the people of ancient Athens. Accompanying photo...

The British Museum
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 60

The British Museum

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1972
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  • Publisher: Lane, Allen

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Hajj
  • Language: en

Hajj

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The Hajj is the largest pilgrimage in the world today and a sacred duty for all Muslims. With contributions from renowned experts, this book opens out onto the full sweep of the Hajj: as a sacred path walked by early Islamic devotees, as a sumptuous site of worship under the care of sultans, and as an expression of faith in the modern world.

A Little Gay History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 130

A Little Gay History

  • Categories: Art

Originally published: London: The British Museum Press, 2013.

The British Museum Book of Chinese Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 395

The British Museum Book of Chinese Art

  • Categories: Art

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Hokusai
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Hokusai

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-05
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A major publication on Hokusai's remarkable late work, incorporating fresh scholarship on the sublime paintings and prints the artist created in the last thirty years of his life

A General Guide to the British Museum (Natural History) ... London
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 64

A General Guide to the British Museum (Natural History) ... London

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1887
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Handbook to the Library of the British Museum
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 444

Handbook to the Library of the British Museum

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