The Classical Collection of the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago

This catalogue presents a selection of the Smart Museum's classical collection that began developing in the 1890s. It provides a historiograhical introduction that traces the formation of the collection in relationship to the pedagogical ideas of the University of Chicago.

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The Smart Museum's Classical collection began developing in the 1890s and now consists of approximately eight hundred pieces, including large-scale statuary and floor mosaics, vases, figurines, coins, lamps, and other utensils. The first extensive study of the Smart's collection, this catalogue presents a selection of the museum's antiquities and provides a historiographical introduction that traces the formation of the collection in relationship to the pedagogical ideas of the University of Chicago. Serving as a factual and functional guide, this catalogue serves classicists and art historians, as well as the museum's many visitors.