Bernard Ashmole 1894 - 1988 ; an autobiography
Ashmole served with honour in the Royal Fusiliers in World War I and in the RAF in World War II. In the description of his wartime experiences he has, comments Robert O'Neill, Oxford University's Chichele Professor of the History of War, 'a marvellous eye for interesting points and a...
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Malibu, Calif.
Paul Getty Museum
1994
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Ashmole served with honour in the Royal Fusiliers in World War I and in the RAF in World War II. In the description of his wartime experiences he has, comments Robert O'Neill, Oxford University's Chichele Professor of the History of War, 'a marvellous eye for interesting points and a succinct way of relating them.'. Ashmole wrote this autobiography for his family. It has been prepared for publication, with additional contributions from leading scholars, by Donna Kurtz, Lecturer in Classical Archaeology and Art, Oxford University Bernard Ashmole was a world authority on ancient Greek sculpture, who held professorships at University College, London and in Oxford in addition to a Keepership at the British Museum. As Keeper at the British Museum he was responsible for the evacuation of the Elgin Marbles before the Battle of Britain and for their reinstatement and display after the war. After his retirement he became an adviser to J. Paul Getty on the purchase of antiquities for his museum in Malibu, California. He was a practical man with a keen interest in how things were made and functioned, whether they were ancient Greek temples or furred-up heating pipes in the British School at Rome. The house which the architect Amyas Connell built for him in Buckinghamshire introduced Le Corbusier's International Style to England |
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| Beschreibung: | XVII, 236 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0892363185 0-89236-318-5 |