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by Eloise McFarlane ’24.5 Introduction The Middlebury College Museum of Art holds a sizable collection of ancient glass, replete with a variety of common yet remarkable objects. The collection is rooted within rich historical and cultural grounds and provides significant
Read More An Exploration of Middlebury’s Ancient Glass Collection
By: Pieter Broucke, Associate Curator of Ancient Art and Professor of History of Art and Architecture A Quixotic Personality Born in Venice in 1720, Giovanni Battista Piranesi was an archaeologist, architect, and artist active in the second half of the
Read More Piranesi and the Greatness of Rome: An Ancient Cinerary Urn Restored and Augmented
By: Pieter Broucke, Associate Curator of Ancient Art and Professor of History of Art and Architecture In the fall of 1996, the Middlebury College Museum of Art received a gift from John Paul Wallach, Middlebury alumnus from the class of
Read More Neo-Sumerian Record Keeping: A Cuneiform Tablet Fragment from a Mesopotamian Archive
By: Pieter Broucke, Associate Curator of Ancient Art and Professor of History of Art and Architecture The Middlebury College Museum holds a collection of some thirty Ancient Greek pottery sherds that as small primary sources greatly enhance the teaching and
Read More Piecing Together Cultural Context: Ancient Greek Painted Pottery Sherds
During a 2019 re-installation of an Early Byzantine floor fragment, Museum staff invited three members of our community—an artist, an ecologist, and an archaeologist—to offer their perspectives on this mosaic. Recognizing that there are many ways to interpret a single
Read More Label Talk: Museum Mosaics—One Object, Many Voices
