J. Paul Getty’s Motivations for Collecting Antiquities

Number: 19 June 1, 2016
  • Erin L Thompson
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J. Paul Getty’s Motivations for Collecting Antiquities

Abstract

Collecting is a curious behaviour. Hardly anyone has not formed a collection, however small. And yet, for all its universality, the collecting impulse, especially the impulse to collect classical antiquities, has been surprisingly little studied. Thanks to inventory lists, household expense records, architectural plans, and other archival records, we know many of the practical facts of most major private collections of antiquities: how much collectors paid for them, from whom they purchased them, where in their homes or private museums they displayed them. Yet, answering the questions of who, when and where bring us very little closer to answering the question of why.

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Erin L Thompson This is me

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June 1, 2016

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Year 2016 Number: 19

APA
Thompson, E. L. (2016). J. Paul Getty’s Motivations for Collecting Antiquities. Adalya, 19, 345-366. https://izlik.org/JA37AZ93DY
AMA
1.Thompson EL. J. Paul Getty’s Motivations for Collecting Antiquities. Adalya. 2016;(19):345-366. https://izlik.org/JA37AZ93DY
Chicago
Thompson, Erin L. 2016. “J. Paul Getty’s Motivations for Collecting Antiquities”. Adalya, nos. 19: 345-66. https://izlik.org/JA37AZ93DY.
EndNote
Thompson EL (June 1, 2016) J. Paul Getty’s Motivations for Collecting Antiquities. Adalya 19 345–366.
IEEE
[1]E. L. Thompson, “J. Paul Getty’s Motivations for Collecting Antiquities”, Adalya, no. 19, pp. 345–366, June 2016, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA37AZ93DY
ISNAD
Thompson, Erin L. “J. Paul Getty’s Motivations for Collecting Antiquities”. Adalya. 19 (June 1, 2016): 345-366. https://izlik.org/JA37AZ93DY.
JAMA
1.Thompson EL. J. Paul Getty’s Motivations for Collecting Antiquities. Adalya. 2016;:345–366.
MLA
Thompson, Erin L. “J. Paul Getty’s Motivations for Collecting Antiquities”. Adalya, no. 19, June 2016, pp. 345-66, https://izlik.org/JA37AZ93DY.
Vancouver
1.Erin L Thompson. J. Paul Getty’s Motivations for Collecting Antiquities. Adalya [Internet]. 2016 Jun. 1;(19):345-66. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA37AZ93DY

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