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Starting in the year 1828, Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, unearthed more than 2000 Greek vases on his estate near the ancient Etruscan town of Vulci. The vases were restored and found their way to archaeological collections all around the world. This volume publishes 10 papers by scholars of international repute dealing with these ceramics. The papers were presented in 2015 at a colloquium in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, which acquired 96 vases from the Bonaparte collection in 1839. Specialists in the fields of museum history, Greek vase-painting, restoration and 19th century collecting practices from the Netherlands, France, Germany, Denmark, Austria, Italy and Russia have contributed to this volume, which offers the newest insights into the person of Lucien Bonaparte, his excavation practices, the history of restorations and the selling and buying of Greek ceramics in the 19th century. The results have helped to extend our knowledge of the collectors, traders and scholars, who were concerned with Greek vases during the 19th century. Their activities took place in a pivotal period, in which the black- and red figure ceramics, which had come to light in Italy during the previous centuries, were finally assigned to Greek craftsmanship instead of to Etruscan manufacture. The book also contains a concise photographic catalogue illustrating the highlights of the Leiden Canino collection.

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Prof. Dr. Ruurd Binnert Halbertsma (1958) is curator in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden and organiser of the international colloquium on the vase collection of Lucien Bonaparte in 2015. His main interest lies in the origin and history of the collections of classical art in European collections. Besides his appointment as curator, Halbertsma is professor at the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. key publications 2003: Scholars, Travellers and Trade - The Pioneer Years of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, 1818-1840, Londen-New York (182 pp., uitg. Routledge). 2007: Niederlandische Sammlungen antiker Skulptur in historischer Perspektive: Ruhm, Frommigkeit und Wissenschaft, Kolner Jahrbuch 40, 45-55. 2008: Creating Antiquity: from an Archaeological Cabinet to a National Museum in the Netherlands, Leiden 1818-1840, in: Tsingarida, A./Verbanck-Pierard (edd.), L'Antiquite au service de la Modernite? La reception de l'antiquite classique en Belgique au XIXe siecle, actes du Colloque international organise du 27 au 29 avril 2005 a l'Universite libre de Bruxelles et au Musee royal de Mariemont, Bruxelles (Le Livre Timperman), 65-79. 2014: Greek Vases in the Low Countries. An Assessment of Collecting Policies, in: Schmidt, S./Steinhart, M. (edd.), Sammeln und Erforschen - Griechische Vasen in neuzeitlichen Sammlungen, Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Band VI, Munchen, 73-83. 2015: Nulli tam laeti triumphi - Constantine's victory on a reworked cameo in Leiden, BABesch 90, 221-235. 2015: Fluctuating Boundaries - Collecting Policies in 19th century archaeological and ethnological museums, in: Dries, M.H./Van der Linden, S.J./Strecker, A. (edd), Fernweh. Crossing Borders and Connecting People in Archaeological Heritage Management. Essays in Honour of Prof. Willem J.H. Willems, 153 - 156. 2017: The Netherlands and Tunisia: archaeological investigations in the 19th century, in: Dridi, H./A. Mezzolani Andreose (eds.), Under Western Eyes - Approches occidentales de l'archeologie nord-africaine (XIXe-XXe siecles), Bologna, 49-65.

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