The Canino connections : the history and restoration of ancient Greek vases from the excavations of Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino (1775-1840) / edited by Ruurd Binnert Halbertsma.

Starting in the year 1828, Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, unearthed more than 2000 Greek vases on his estate near the ancient Etruscan town of Vulci. The vases were restored and found their way to archaeological collections all around the world. This volume publishes 10 papers by scholars of international repute dealing with these ceramics. The papers were presented in 2015 at a colloquium in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, which acquired 96 vases from the Bonaparte collection in 1839. Specialists in the fields of museum history, Greek vase-painting, restoration and 19th cent.

Machine generated contents note: Lucien Bonaparte and the Politics of Collecting / Pieter ter Keurs -- Lucien Bonaparte, the Archaeologist-Prince / Alessandra Costantini -- Staying at Musignano: August Kestner and the excavations of the Principe di Canino / Anne Viola Siebert -- Canino vases in the State Hermitage Museum: the history of purchasing / Anna Petrakova -- Greek vases in The Hague and Leiden: the sale of Canino vases in 1839 / Jos van Heel -- Canino Auctions -- the unidentified vases / Vinnie Nørskov -- appreciation of black- and red-figure vases and other pottery wares according to the Canino documents / Friederike Bubenheimer-Erhart -- Without adding any line of drawing -- The restoration of the Canino vases: principles, reality and actors / Marie-Amelie Bernard -- Canino Collection: historical restorations on Greek vases in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden / Marianna During -- Restorations on the Canino vases of the State Hermitage Museum / Anastasia Bukina.

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