Italian paintings
by Pope-Hennessy, John, Kanter, Laurence B.
fromThe Robert Lehman Collection
Bringing together 617 references to books, chapters, and articles, this annotated bibliography covers survey works, methods and methodology, case studies, use studies, availability studies and document delivery tests, overlap studies, standards, citation studies, the RLG Conspec…
When Edgar Degas died in 1917, his enormous art collection, consisting of several thousand paintings, drawings, and prints, came to light. This remarkable assemblage included great numbers of works by the French nineteenth-century masters whom Degas revered - Delacroix, Ingres, …
Robert Kohler argues that the work begun by Linnaeus culminated around 1900, when collecting and inventory were organized on a grand scale in natural history surveys. Supported by governments, museums, and universities, biologists launched hundreds of collecting expeditions to e…