British Museum

A handbook,

The Sutton Hoo ship-burial;

Thomas Garnet Henry James

From tbe earliest times the Egyptians used bold, bright colours to decorate their buildings, sculptures, papyri, coffins and funerary chests. The large tomb-paintings in the British Museum are the most brilliant examples of their artistry but their love of colour shows also in the small vignettes of painted papyri. This book surveys the whole range of Egypian painting, illustrated chiefly by the wealth of material in the British Museum. T.G.H. Jamesexamines the material used by the ancient painters and explains the conventions and methods which governed some great artists, whose work should be valued in its own right as well as for its incomparable record record of Egyptian life 3000 years ago.

Egyptian Painting and Drawing in the British Museum

Delia Pemberton

The British Museum Little Book of Treasures

The British Museum Haiku

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Michelangelo's drawings offer a unique insight into how the artist worked and thought. They are beautiful artworks in their own right but also provide a crucial link between his work as a sculptor, painter and architect. Michelangelo was extraordinarily famous during his lifetime, so much so that other artists produced portraits of him and three biographies were written. His artistic achievements set him in a class apart from his contemporaries; after the death of his main rival Raphael in 1520, he was to dominate the Roman art world for more than four decades. His primary focus as an artist was the male body, and his drawings chart his relentless search to find poses that would most eloquently express the emotional and spiritual state of his subjects. Most of Michelangelo's drawings were never intended for public display. In fact, he would have been appalled to see them exhibited as he hated showing them to outsiders. He destroyed a large number before he died, probably to prevent them from falling into other hands; he may also have wished to conceal the amount of preparation behind his major works.

Drawings by Michelangelo, from the British Museum

Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired

The British Museum: Its Antiquities and Natural History. A Hand-book Guide for Visitors. By Henry G. Clarke. [The Abridged Edition.]

Mark Smith

The mortuary texts of Papyrus, BM 10507

Catalogue of Demotic Papyri in the British Museum

A. A. Fincham

Basic Marine Biology

Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum

Ten-year supplement 1956 - 1965. Kirm - Kurj

General Catalogue of printed books to 1955

British Museum. 1956 - 1965. Kirm - Kurj

General Catalogue of Printed Books

Franz Boll

Christian Bartholomae

Julius Ruska

Ludwig Curtius

Gerhard Ritter

Hermann Oncken

Hermann Ranke

Albrecht Götze

Wilhelm Spiegelberg

Alfred von Domaszewski

Ernst Fabricius

Karl Hampe

Karl Meister

Otto Immisch

Otto Weinreich

Rudolf Sillib

Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Stiftung Heinrich Lanz, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse

British Library

Howard Nelson

Yolande Jones

Howard G. H. Nelson

Helen Wallis

An Exhibition Organised by the British Library at the British Museum, 1 February-31 December 1974

Chinese & Japanese Maps

Roderick Whitfield

The Stein Collection in the British Museum

The Art of Central Asia

D-Dant

Bank of England

Three Hundred Years of British Banknote Design

As Good as Gold

The ancient Cypriot collections of the British Museum have inspired the essays in this volume in honour of Veronica Tatton-Brown, who for many years was their curator. Written by her academic colleagues and friends, the themes covered range from funeral rites at Late Bronze Age Enkomi to sculptured portraits of parents and children in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, along with the reconstruction of the Persian siege ramp at Palaipaphos and the history of Cypriot archaeology as revealed in the Museum's archives. The focus on individual objects ranges from the superb craftsmanship of an ivory gaming-box to an intriguing clay model of a dagger and its sheath, in a volume that highlights key points of interest in this rich and varied collection. Thomas Kiely is the Cyprus Curator in the Greek and Roman department of the British Museum.

Essays in Honour of Veronica Tatton-Brown

Ancient Cyprus in the British Museum

Timothy Clark

Ukiyo-e Paintings in the British Museum

J. B. Segal

Erica C. D. Hunter

The British Museum's collection of incarnation bowls found in Mesopotamia is probably second only to that of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. The function of the bowls, which have magical texts mainly in Jewish Aramaic and Mandaic scripts, is uncertain, but was probably to serve as a trap for evil spirits. This catalogue provides a transliteration, translation and commentary on the text of each of 142 bowls or fragments of bowls. It also includes a typological study of the physical and decorative features of the bowls, some of which have anthropomorphic or zoomorphic drawings, and a glossary and table of scripts.

Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum

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