Books from Ashmolean Museum
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ABC of Egyptian Hieroglyphs
By Jaromír MálekThe ancient Egyptians used pictures - each representing a word, a syllable or a sound - for writing. The alphabet itself consisted of 24 signs and there were over 700...
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Ancient Iraq: (Assyria and Babylonia)
By Peter Roger Stuart Moorey, Ashmolean MuseumAncient Iraq: (Assyria and Babylonia)
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The Ashmolean Museum: Complete Illustrated Catalogue of Paintings
By Colin Harrison, Ashmolean Museum, Jon WhiteleyFor the first time ever, all paintings in the Department of Western Art in the Ashmolean Museum have been brought together in one volume. Every picture is illustrated and almost...
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The Most Beautiful Statues: The Taste for Antique Sculpture, 1500-1900 : an Exhibition Held at the Ashmolean Museum from 26...
The Most Beautiful Statues: The Taste for Antique Sculpture, 1500-1900 : an Exhibition Held at the Ashmolean Museum from 26...
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Ancient Greek Pottery
By Michael J. VickersThe text showcases a selection of vessels from the Ashmolean's collection. Most of the pots were made in Corinth and Athens and transported to Italy and Sicily where they served...
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Camille Pissarro and His Family: The Pissarro Collection in the Ashmolean Museum
By Kristen Erickson, Ashmolean Museum, Anne ThoroldThe collection of drawings and watercolours by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, is the largest in the world and is the largest collection of drawings by any...
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Lucien Pissarro: Notes on a Selection of Wood-blocks Held at the Ashmolean Museum
By Ashmolean Museum, David ChambersLucien Pissarro: Notes on a Selection of Wood-blocks Held at the Ashmolean Museum
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Pots and People that Have Shaped the Heritage of Medieval and Later England
By Maureen MellorThe Ashmolean Museum's collection of medieval pottery is one of the most important resources of material history in England. This volume describes the broad groups of ceramics, and gives an...
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Ancient Egypt
By Peter Roger Stuart Moorey, Ashmolean MuseumAncient Egypt
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Eighteenth-century French Porcelain in the Ashmolean Museum
By Ashmolean Museum, Aileen DawsonThe Ashmolean Museum has a collection of French porcelain which is remarkable both for several individual pieces from famous collections, and also for the way in which it demonstrates the...
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Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection
By Michael Sullivan, Ashmolean MuseumKhoan and Michael Sullivan began collecting modern Chinese painting in Sichuan in western China in the 1940s, and their collection has developed over the course of more than half a...
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Japanese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
By Ashmolean Museum, Janice KatzThis volume is the first comprehensive look at the Ashmolean Museum's significant works that range in date from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, many of which are illustrated in...