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Title:Christian VIII & the National Museum : Antiquities, Coins, Medals
Author:Jørgen Steen Jensen, John Lund & Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen (eds)
ISBN:8789438051 : 9788789438054
Illustrations:85 colour illus
Format:Paperback
Size:185x220mm
Pages:180
Weight: .586 Kg.
Published:Aarhus University Press - December 2006
List Price: 13.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES: Biography: royalty: MUSEUMS & MUSEOLOGY: European history: c1750 to c1900: Denmark


Prince Christian Frederik (1786-1848) became King Christian VIII of Denmark in 1839. His accession to the throne took place at the end of Denmark's 'Golden Age' -- a period haunted by national bankruptcy but, notably, due to a few men of vision also a period in which painting, poetry and science developed intensively. Because of his intelligence, energy and patronage of the arts, King Christian VIII became one of the entrepreneurs of Danish cultural life. After his death in 1848, the King's collection became state property and was transferred to the National Museum. In 1998, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the King's death, the National Museum arranged a symposium where a series of papers were presented about the King as a collector and about the importance of the collections. This book, lavishly illustrated with photographs of the collection and other artefacts, contains the symposium papers, which have been revised and expanded.

Preface; A Danish Prince in Naples; Christian VIII as numismatist: his collections of coins and medals; What the collections meant to Christian VIII; The needs of a gentleman: the Egyptian antiquities in the collection of Christian VIII; Royal connoisseur and consular collector: the part played by C.T. Falbe in collecting antiquities from Tunisia, Greece and Paris for Christian VIII; "Much went to the grave with Christian VIII"; Abbbreviations and bibliography; Index of names.