Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Mediterranean Antiquities, Vol. 1, The Ancient Glass
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, La collection des antiquités méditerranéennes, Vol. 1, La verrerie antique
Biographical note
Beaudoin Caron D ès L (1986) in Roman history and archaeology, Université de Grenoble III, teaches Classical Archaeology and Roman History at the Université de Montréal. He has published mainly on Roman glass, as well as on other aspects of ancient material culture.
Eléni P. Zoïtopoúlou Lic Phil (1973) in Classical Archaeology, Athens University, was a member of the Greek Antiquities' Service. Later, as honorary curator in the Ethnology section of the McGill University's Redpath Museum, she published widely on ancient terracotta pieces (lamps and statuettes).
Eléni P. Zoïtopoúlou Lic Phil (1973) in Classical Archaeology, Athens University, was a member of the Greek Antiquities' Service. Later, as honorary curator in the Ethnology section of the McGill University's Redpath Museum, she published widely on ancient terracotta pieces (lamps and statuettes).
Readership
This catalogue will be of interest for professional archaeologists and art historians, curators, students of antiquity, collectors, art dealers and laymen with an interest in the ancient world.
Reviews
"Il Volume,dalla accurata edizione, costituisce in sintesi, sia per i testi, sia per la parte illustrativa, un utile strumento di lavoro e di confronto per materiali vitrei da contesti di varia cronologiae di varia area geografica e rientra nella migliore tradizione di cataloghi del vetro antico."
Lucia Amalia Scatozza-Höricht, Notices, 2009
“The series Monumenta Graeca et Romana provides welcome access to collections large and small. This second volume of the Mediterranean antiquities in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is a valuable addition to the growing corpus of ancient and medieval lamps and terracotta figures.”
Helen Nagy, University of Puget Sound, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.11.19
Lucia Amalia Scatozza-Höricht, Notices, 2009
“The series Monumenta Graeca et Romana provides welcome access to collections large and small. This second volume of the Mediterranean antiquities in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is a valuable addition to the growing corpus of ancient and medieval lamps and terracotta figures.”
Helen Nagy, University of Puget Sound, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.11.19
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