Exhibiting the past

• Verfasst von: Hoijtink, Mirjam
• Titel: Exhibiting the past
• Titelzusatz: Caspar Reuvens and the museums of antiquities in Europe, 1800 - 1840
• Verf.angabe: Mirjam Hoijtink
• Verlagsort: Turnhout
• Verlag: Brepols
• Jahr: 2012
• Umfang: 198 S.
• Illustrationen: Ill., Kt.
• Format: 28 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: PALMA ; 7 : History and heritage
• Angaben zum Titel: Zusatz auf dem Umschlag: Caspar J. C. Reuvens and the museums of antiquities in Europe 1800 - 1840
• Hochschulschrift: Teilw. zugl.: Amsterdam, Univ., Diss., 2009 u.d.T.: Hoijtink, Mirjam: Caspar J. C. Reuvens en de Musea van Oudheden in Europa
• ISBN: 2-503-54152-6
• ISBN: 978-2-503-54152-5
• Schlagwörter: (p)Reuvens, Caspar Jacob Christiaan / (s)Sammlung / (s)Altertumswissenschaft / (z)Geschichte 1800-1840
• Schlagwörter: (k)Rijksmuseum van Oudheden / (z)Geschichte 1800-1840
• Dokumenttyp: Hochschulschrift
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: LE 4281
• RVK-Notation: LE 5107
• RVK-Notation: NG 1515
• RVK-Notation: AK 84164
• K10plus-PPN: 725455470

Abstract

In the first decades of the 19th century the exhibition of antiquity in museums reflected a universal history of civilization, in which the idea of cross-cultural influences dominated. Hindu-buddhist civilization of 13th century Java was easily connected to that of classical Greece, and Indian Hindu-depictions were playfully related to those of Egyptian Pharaonic time. This book shows how antiquity, during and just after the Napoleonic era formed a statement in a changing world at the dawn of nationalism. The main character is the first professor of Archaeology Caspar Reuvens, director of the Museum of Antiquity in Leiden, the Netherlands (1818-1835). It emphasis on his forming years in Paris and Germany, his many travels to London, and his plans for a journey to Rome. Beside, it sheds new light on the radically changing canon of antique sculpture in a nervous Europe, that soon would be falling apart in nation states