On holiday with Leonardo
Nicholas Penny, 21 December 1989
The New Museology
edited by Peter Vergo.
Reaktion, 230 pp., £23, September 1989,0 948462 04 3 Show More
edited by Peter Vergo.
Reaktion, 230 pp., £23, September 1989,
The Romantic Interior: The British Collector at Home 1750-1850
by Clive Wainwright.
Yale, 314 pp., £35, November 1989,0 300 04225 6 Show More
by Clive Wainwright.
Yale, 314 pp., £35, November 1989,
Journal of the History of Collections, No 1
edited by Oliver Impey and Arthur MacGregor.
Oxford, 230 pp., £23, June 1989,0 00 954665 0 Show More
edited by Oliver Impey and Arthur MacGregor.
Oxford, 230 pp., £23, June 1989,
“... To attract support today, a great museum, whether of art, archaeology, ethnography or natural history, would be ill advised to draw attention to its extensive collection of specimens, even if it can reasonably be claimed that these specimens enable the visitor to confirm, extend and perhaps challenge the work of a Winckelmann, a Darwin or a Burckhardt ... ”
