Topic: Ashmolean Museum

The viola is a member of the violin family, the other members being the violin, the violoncello (or cello) and the double bass. Bach and Mozart were both accomplished violists although the instrument was regarded as of little consequence in those times ...

Museum of the History of Science

Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford collection of early scientific instruments and apparatus. In that year, the collection of early instruments in the possession of Lewis Evans (whose brother Sir Arthur Evans had been curator of the Ashmolean Museum ...

Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

It was established to house collections donated to the university in 1677 by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), an antiquarian who had inherited the bulk of the collections from a friend, John Tradescant (1608-62). In the 19th century, the growth and variety of new ...

Cezanne (FBI’s Top 10 Art Thefts: A Daily Blog Series)

Paul Cezanne's View of Auvers-sur-Oise was taken from the the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England, in 1999.. Valued at ?3 million, the painting has been described as an important work illustrating the transition from early to mature Cezanne painting..