Of Cows, Copper, Corners, and Cult: The Emergence of the Cypriot Bronze...

Near Eastern Archaeology;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......antiquarian activities of Louis Palma di Cesnola, one of the most controversial and flamboyant...Today there is a tendency to denigrate di Cesnola's methods of "excavation" that lacked...his own discoveries (Alien 1999)! Both di Cesnola and Schliemann should be judged by the...

The History of History: Excavations at Idalion and the Changing History of...

Near Eastern Archaeology;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......around Dhali was General Luigi Palma di Cesnola (ai Cesnola 1877), the well-known American consul to the Ottoman Empire in Cyprus. Di Cesnola worked at Dhali off and on during the...to have opened fifteen thousand tombs (di Cesnola 1877:66) and reports that a structure...

Palaeolithic mollusc exploitation at Riparo Mochi (Balzi Rossi, Italy):...

Antiquity;  December 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......1998b; Leroi-Gourhan 1961; Mellars 1989; Otte 1990; Palma di Cesnola 1993; White 1982). This study explores an important branch...technique. (Sources: Bietti 1990; Hedges et al. 1994: 347; Palma di Cesnola 1993.) The long Upper-Epi-Palaeolithic sequence of Riparo...

IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1904: Greek Chariot in New York

International Herald Tribune;  March 24, 2004 ;     92 words ......or seven centuries before Christ, is in the Metropolitan Art Museum, New York, for which it was purchased by General L.P. di Cesnola in Paris last spring. Archaeologists have been aware of the chariot's whereabouts, but a protest in Rome was the first that...

REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS: Oinochoe and statue donated to Cyprus Museum.

M2 Presswire;  August 26, 1998 ;     163 words ......August 1998-REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS: Oinochoe and statue donated to Cyprus Museum (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:260898 The Leventis...antiquities' markets abroad, has purchased and donated to the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia an oinochoe with a representation of a bird on...

Voyage of discovery.

Daily News (Jacksonville, NC);  December 30, 2005 ;     602 words ......people have collections, Crist has the 2,500-square-foot Cyprus Museum as an extension of his home. It showcases 480 pieces recovered...including Mary Easley, to Jacksonville so they could tour the Cyprus Museum, which was established in 1988. I wanted the committee to...

The naked collector.

The Evening Standard (London, England);  October 29, 2001 ;     700+ words ......SUSAN MOORE IT all began one morning in the summer of 1967, when Desmond Morris strolled into Room Two of the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia and set eyes on the extraordinary vessels and figurines produced 4,000 years before by the island's...

Art: when more is absolutely more.

Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);  May 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ......through the hands of several Italian owners and dealers before it was bought in 1903 by the museum's first director, Luigi Palma di Cesnola. Italian officials claim that the chariot left Monteleone illegally, and they want it back. This probably isn't going to happen...

President Clerides inaugurates four new galleries of Cypriot art in the...

M2 Presswire;  April 5, 2000 ;     442 words ......Cypriot art exhibits, stored in the vaults of the Museum. The exhibits were exported from Cyprus by the US Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola between 1865 and 1876. The Cypriot galleries will host some 600 of the finest works from the Museum's collection comprising...

Fence Post.(News)(Letter to the Editor)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  July 29, 2005 ;     700+ words ......who helped the future president draft the Declaration of Independence. During the Civil War, there were Gens. Luigi Palma di Cesnola, Bancroft Gherardi and Francis Spinola. In the last century, Americans of Italian descent made up the largest ethnic contingent...

Surveying Late Antique Cyprus

Near Eastern Archaeology;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......site, owing in part to its very visible location along the coastal road between Larnaka and points east. Even Luigi Palma di Cesnola, the famous archaeological adventurer of the late-nineteenth century conducted excavations at the site, which sat on the route...

THE TIMELESS SHOCK OF THE OLD

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  April 30, 1999 ;     700+ words ......berobed, blank-eyed figures with jutting beards -- that were the pride of the museum's first director, General Luigi Palma di Cesnola. The Greek art could be found in adjacent and upstairs galleries that had none of the visibility or polish of the museum's...

Temple of beauty learning: the new Greek and Roman galleries at the...

Apollo;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......mission got off to a rather bizarre start in the 1870s, when it acquired much of the Cypriot art collection of Luigi Palma di Cesnola, Italian expatriate, Civil War officer and American consul in Cyprus (Fig. 2). (3) At a time when the Harvard professor Charles...

Cyprus reclaims. (the Kanakaria mosaics)

The Economist (US);  August 12, 1989 ;     371 words ......000 bronze age and classical pieces stored in the Metropolitan Museum in New York city. They were collected by Luigi Palma di Cesnola, the American consul at Larnaca when Cyprus was under Ottoman rule, who later became a director of the Metropolitan Museum...

FIRST LADY LAURA BUSH DELIVERS REMARKS AT THE NATIONAL ITALIAN- AMERICAN...

Political Transcript Wire;  October 12, 2007 ;     700+ words ......the Axis powers. (Applause.) During the Civil War, one of the early Medals of Honor went to a Turin native named Luigi Palma di Cesnola. Reflecting Italian Americans' broad achievements, this Union soldier later became the first director of New York's Metropolitan...