Author: Oliver Impey
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum
Keywords: screen, folding, japanese, art
Number of Pages: 111
Published: 2007-01-25
List price: $31.50
ISBN-10: 1854440810
ISBN-13: 9781854440815

The design of the Japanese folding screen is one of the great art devices in decorative arts. Its history, schools of painting, the artists are explored in this elegant publication wherein the golds, reds and greens reflect as accurately as possible on the printed page the actual screens.

Author: Ann Brown
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum
Keywords: minos, palace, evans, arthur
Number of Pages: 110
Published: 1993-10
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0900090928
ISBN-13: 9780900090929

The Palace of Minos - legendary Cretan home of the Minotaur - captured the imagination of people worldwide from the moment its excavator, Sir Arthur Evans (1851-1941) first reported his discoveries in the press. This book illustrated from archive material in the Ashmolean, shows how the excavations proceeded and how the reconstruction of parts of the Palace was achieved.

Author: Diana Scarisbrick
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum
Keywords: ashmolean, handbooks, modern, ancient, rings, finger
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2006-07-25
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1854441663
ISBN-13: 9781854441669

In this overview are over 150 signet rings, magic rings, rings commemorating love/marriage, etc.

Authors:Ashmolean Museum, Tony Goodwin,
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum
Keywords: islamic, sylloge, ashmolean, coins, volume, period, pre, reform, coinage
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-06
List price: $71.50
ISBN-10: 1854441736
ISBN-13: 9781854441737

This will be the third volume to appear in a proposed ten-volume series, which aims to present the coins and their descriptions in as simple a manner as possible and in a format which is intended to facilitate ease of use. The coins are grouped in regional or dynastic sub-sections and then arranged chronologically under mint headings.

Authors:J. C. Harle, Andrew Topsfield,
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum
Keywords: museum, ashmolean, art, indian
Number of Pages: 94
Published: 1988-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0907849520
ISBN-13: 9780907849520

The Ashmolean’s holdings of Indian art are among the most extensive in Britain. Arranged chronologically, this work is divided into three sections: Hindu, Buddhist and Jain sculpture; folk bronzes and paintings; and painting and decorative arts of the Mughal and British periods.

Authors:Juliet Simpson, Jules Leon Flandrin, G. Flandrin, Gen
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum
Keywords: siecle, fin, flandrin, jules
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2001-04
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1854441434
ISBN-13: 9781854441430

The French fin-de-siecle artist Jules Flandrin was a pupil of Gustave Moreau, one of the most prominent figures in the mid-to-late 19th-century art world. His studio was a meeting place for some of the most influential avant-garde artists of the 20th century - Matisse, Albert Marquet and Georges Rouault, artists who shaped our ideas of modern art. Flandrin was a major force amongst these innovators. Widely shown in the French capital in the first years of the new century, on the eve of World War I he was hailed as a torchbearer of ’l’art vivant’. Illustrated exclusively from

Author: C. E. Vaphopoulou-Richardson
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum
Keywords: classical, studies, history, archaeology, greek, terracottas, ancient
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 1990-06
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1854440098
ISBN-13: 9781854440099

The Ashmolean Museum possesses a collection of Ancient Greek terracottas which covers the whole of the Greek world, with examples from all the important centres of production. Intended for both the scholar and the general reader, this work features discussions and bibliographic notes.