Most Popular Books by Royal Ontario Museum

Greek, Roman and Related Metalware in the Royal Ontario Museum Aby John W Hayes Metal vessels, lamps, containers and furniture fittings dating from 8th C BC to 6th C AD Egypt and the Mediterranean are catalogued in this well-illustrated volume.

From Heinrich Aldegrever''s jewel-like engraving Two Spoons and a Hunting Whistle of 1539 to Neo-Op Psychedelic Revival handbills of 1988, Documenting Design illuminates the importance of prints and drawings as documents of design history.

A pictorial survey of its collections, with a brief historical introduction and commentary. Includes reproductions of sculpture, paintings, textiles, ivories, silver, jewelry, etc.

With vol. for 1973 the publication was divided into three streams: Archaeology; Ethnography; and: History, technology and art.

This catalogue discusses Etruscan pottery in non-Greek and non-Roman styles with a particular focus on a large collection of impasto vessels of 8th- to 6th-century BC from Chiusi. The author proposes some new dating methodology and there are catalogue descriptions, good photos and profile drawings of the pieces.

While Black-Figure and Red-Figure vases appear in the CVA volumes, this catalogue presents 326 examples of other Greek painted traditions, ranging from the Aegean Bronze Age to the 1st century BC. The types range from regular shapes (hydria, kraters, aryballoi and so on) to some truly weird vases in the shapes of legs and helmeted heads. Extensive descriptions and crisp photos.

Founded by Marius Barbeau, the pioneer of French-Canadian decorative arts recognition, the Royal Ontario Museum''s is the most significant collection of early French-Canadian furniture outside Quebec. Armoires, cradles, chairs, tables, desks, commodes, buffets, cupboards, chests, and room paneling are included. The furniture of New France reflected the styles and traditions of the earliest settlers'' ancestral homes, Brittany and Normandy especially. Later British and American influences were most pronounced in urban centres. In rural towns and villages, French artisanship continued to the mid-19th century. By 1900, the tradition had been supplanted by the mass-produced furniture of mechanised factories. Rococo to Rustique looks at 200 years of French-Canadian furniture and surveys the social and historical context in which the furniture was produced, illustrated in part through watercolours from the museum''s celebrated collection of Canadian heritage art.

"Published in association with NRC Research Press, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, and the Royal Ontario Museum."