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British Museum Objects in Focus Box Set
This box set containes the 'Object in Focus' titles on five of the most famous and iconic objects at the British Museum. Each book tells the story of where the objects came from, the hands they passed through before reaching the Museum, and their artistic and historical significance.
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The Warren Cup
"The silver Warren Cup, created early in the first century AD, is a remarkably important and beautiful masterpiece of Roman art. The scenes on either side show a pair of male lovers in low relief. This book examines the iconography of the Warren Cup, and sets it in its social and historical context. It also discusses the cup's modern history, especially the life of the eccentric collector, Edward Perry Warren, from which it takes its name. The cup's acquisition by the British Museum in 1999, after years of obscurity due to the explicit nature of the scenes depicted, caused quite a stir in the press. This extraordinary work of art not only provides a means of understanding ancient Roman attitudes to sexuality, but also challenges us across the centuries to reflect on our own contemporary attitudes."--BOOK JACKET.
Grouping Objects
Activities for increasing pupils' understanding of the properties of various objects.
The Lewis Chessmen
The Lewis chessmen were found hidden on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in the early nineteenth century. Probably made in Norway around AD 1150-1200, they consist of elaborately worked walrus ivory in the forms of seated kings and queens, mitred bishops, knights on their mounts, standing warders and pawns. This book takes a look at the many theories surrounding the ownership of the pieces, why they were hidden and how exactly they were discovered, and places them in the wider context of the ancient game of chess and secular culture of the Middle Ages.
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