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The Ashmolean also figures prominently in several episodes of the successor series Lewis, particularly the episode "Point of Vanishing" where the painting The Hunt in the Forest (c. 1470) is a key plot element; the characters visit the painting at the museum and are instructed on its features by an art expert before solving the case.
Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia, Ashmolean Museum. Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia is a painting of 1682 in oil on canvas by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée, traditionally just "Claude" in English), a painter from the Duchy of Lorraine who spent his career in Rome.
A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids is a painting by the English artist William Holman Hunt that was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1850 and is now in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. It was a companion to John Everett Millais's Christ in the House of His Parents. Both artists sought ...
It is held in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, north of Abingdon. [4] The Abingdon Sword has silver mounts inlaid with niello in the Trewhiddle style. [5] The sword's guard has interlaced animal motifs. [3] Ornamentation includes symbols of the Evangelists. The pommel of the sword has two animal heads for decoration.
In 1928, he was appointed Keeper of the Ashmolean and of the Department of Antiquities. He held both those positions until his retirement in 1945. After his retirement, he continued to work in the Ashmolean, where he catalogued collections of Chinese, Annamese and Korean coins in the Heberden Coin Room. He married Alice Marjory Wright in 1925.
Sir John Evans KCB FRS FSA FRAI (17 November 1823 – 31 May 1908) was an English antiquarian, geologist and founder of prehistoric archaeology.. Between 1884 and 1908 he was curator of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, becoming the founding member of the British Academy in 1902 and professor of prehistoric archaeology at Oxford in 1909.
Catherine Whistler is an Irish art historian and curator, specialising in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art.She is Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum, a supernumerary fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and Professor of the History of European Art at the University of Oxford.
Ashmole's collection of antiques, curiosities and books was donated after his death, founding the Ashmolean Museum. [6] In 1860 the manuscript was transferred to the Bodleian Library which is one of the oldest libraries in Europe and one of the largest in England. [7] It has resided there ever since.