[Last modified: March, 24 2019 08:49 PM]
Meet the Curatorial Team:
Laura Rognoni: Her object of expertise was the The Yates Memorial, and she focused on drawing links between sacrifice and materiality through the use of a timeline. She was also involved in the navigational aspects of the website and links to religion.
Louis Kopp: His object of focus was the Finger and Tendon specimen, and he was involved in the branches of medicine and religion.
Jessica Thorpe: Her object of focus was the head of a stone statuette, and she was interested in its materiality and relationship to religion. She also contributed to some curatorial aspects such as the colour theme.
Yasmin Jiang: Her object of focus was the specimen of a parasite, and she focused on the theme of sacrifice and medicine. She was involved in the design of the exhibition, especially in creating the interactive tabs.
Emily Gulliksen Craste: Her object of focus is the ‘Confessio Amantis’ Manuscript Fragment, and its link to materiality and religion. She was especially focused on drawing conclusions and connections to the idea of “virtual sacrifice”.
Acknowledgments
This exhibition would not exist without the amazing help, time and guidance offered to us by the UCL ‘Object Lessons: Communicating Knowledge Through Collections’ staff starting with Thomas Kador. We have been given great help from curators across UCL, including: Subhadra Das (from the Pathology Museum), Anna Garnett (from the Petrie Museum), Andrea Fredericksen (from the Art Museum), Tannis Davidson (Grant Museum), Victoria Rea and Tabitha Tucket (both from the UCL special collections).
References & Extra Reading
The Yates Memorial:
Banerjee, J. 2010. Baron Henri Joseph François de Triqueti (1803-1874). [online]. The Victorian Web: Literature, Culture and History in the Age of Victoria. Available from:http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/triqueti/biography.html [accessed 04/02/2019].
Cleere, C. 1997. L’Innocenza Perduta: Conserving a Carrara Marble Statue. Journal of Conservation & Museum Studies [online]. Vol 2, Iss. 1. pp. 1-5. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jcms.2971 [Accessed 07/02/2019].
Grote, G. 1865. Letter to Sir John Romilly. 18th May. London, United Kingdom. Manuscripts; Public Record Office Correspondence, UCL Special Collections.
Marmi R. 2019. The Carrara Marble: A White Marble with History. Marmi Rossi: Just Another World. [online]. Carrara, Italy. Available from: https://www.marmirossi.com/en/news/focus-materials/the-carrara-marble-a-white-marble-with-history [accessed 05/02/2019].
Stone Statuette:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017. Acanthocephaliasis. [online] Available at: < https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/acanthocephaliasis/index.html> [Accessed 13 February 2019].
Jenkins, I. 2001. ‘Archaic Kouroi in Naucratis: The Case for Cypriot Origin,’ AJA 105, 163-79.
De Chadarevian, S. and Hopwood, N., 2004. Dimensions of Modelling. In: de Chadarevia, S, and Hopwood, S., eds. 2004. Models: the third dimension of science. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Ch.1.
Kingdoms & Domains: an illustrated guide to the phyla of life on Earth New ed., [4th ed.]., Amsterdam; London: Academic Press. pp.278 – 281.
Gardner, E. A. 1888. Naukratis II, London, Trübner & Co.
Severed Finger
Horn, P. 1995. Conclusion: the working-class child in the 1880s. Children’s Work and Welfare 1780-1890 online. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 69-71. Available from: https://www-cambridge-org.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/core/books/childrens-work-and-welfare-17801890/134E5C1883220CF12BA08FE026B62038 Accessed 17 February 2019.
Humphries, J. 2010. Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution online. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-11. Available from: https://www-cambridge-org.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/core/books/childhood-and-child-labour-in-the-british-industrial-revolution/552A7B5B3F79D65220920F2DE3113D2E Accessed 17 February 2019.
UCL Pathology Collection. Ripped-off finger and tendon. Catalog number: A.61. Pictures by: Louis Kopp
Confessio Amantis
Gower, John, and G. C Macaulay. 1899. The Complete Works Of John Gower. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Bl.uk. (2019). An introduction to illuminated manuscripts by the British Library. [online] Available at: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/TourIntroGen.asp [Accessed 15 Feb. 2019].
“Late Medieval English Scribes”. 2019. Medievalscribes.Com. https://www.medievalscribes.com/index.php?navtype=authors&navauthor=Gower&browse=manuscripts&id=301&nav=off.
Parasite Specimen