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...themes. Curators of the museum like John Rosenfield and Konrad Oberhuber teach Harvard courses, and the museum hosts a myriad of seminars, employing the extensive reserves of material in its collections. The Fogg's use as an instructional facility is "on a par with Fitzwilliam at Cambridge (England), the Ashmolean at Oxford, and Yale and Princeton's museums," Rosenfield, Curator of Oriental Art, said last week. But he added that the Fogg uses its collection "far more intensively" in teaching. "We increase the link insofar as is commensurate with preserving the collection," Rosenfield said...
After Mellaart's discoveries in the late 1950s, there was a surge into the market of "Hacilar" artifacts that some archaeologists attributed to illicit excavating in the area. But doubts about the authenticity of some of the "Hacilar" material began to crop up in 1965, when the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford bought a two-headed ceramic vase on the London antiquities market. The style was distinctively that of Hacilar; but at the same time, at least three similar vases were sold for as much as $7,200 to collections in Europe and America. This coincidence, combined with several...
...years Palmer mulled over these matters, reading all available documents and even visiting Greece and Crete for first-hand looks. Early this year he went to Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, of which Sir Arthur had been director, and asked to see his notes. The librarian took him to a basement cupboard where most of the Evans papers were stored. Digging deep, he came upon a ten-volume, richly illustrated daybook giving a meticulous play-by-play account of Sir Arthur's excavation of Knossos. It was written by Duncan Mackenzie, a redhaired Scotsman whom Sir Arthur had hired...
...living ears have ever heard the three greatest Stradivarius violins. "The Messiah" Strad rests in Oxford's Ashmolean Museum; the equally famed "Alard" is owned by an English collector who does not fiddle with it. The third great Strad, "The Earl of Plymouth," was found in 1925 in an old storeroom on the Earl's estate. Fritz Kreisler bought the "Earl...
...lectures by two foreign set me seum men have been announced by the Museum of Fine Arts. Dr. D. F. Hagarth, Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford. England, will speak this afternoon at 4 o'clock on "The lenses On Thursday, March 24, at 4 o'clock D. W. Martin Director of the Reys Fleeing Gallery at The Hasue, will spash on of Dutch Missiers" in the Museum Masters" in the Museum Collection. Both lectures will be free tickets required...