Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-09
PAPER BEFORE NORWICH
 ART STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
Read by Miss Hannah CrowelI Upor
 Greek Archaeology.

The Norwich Art Students a,ssocia- tion held it's regular monthly meeting | Monday evening at the Slater Memo rial. Miss Nancy Lucas. the presi- l dent, conducted the business meeting. 1 at which it was announced that at 1 the April meeting a vote would be taken on some proposed changes in 1 the constitution. It was voted to eel | ebrate the 20th anniversary of the a-s- sociation by giving a luncheon during l the month of May.
 The paper for the meeting was by Miss Hannah Crowell upon the sub ject of Greek Archaeology.
 Miss Crowell made her paper most | interesting and instructive. She de- 1 fined Green Archaeology as that | branch of knowledge which takes cognizance of past civilizations 1 and investigates their history in all | fields by means of the remains of art, ] architecture, monuments, customs, in- | scriptions, literature and implements. The most ancient monuments left l on the soil of Greece date from the l time when Greece had as yet no his- | tory. Although Greece owed it's early 1 ideas of art to the more ancient civ | ilizations, she completely overpowered external influences by the strength | and vigor of her own development. | For the most part Greek Archaeology l is a product of the 18th century, al- l though the modern treatment of an- l three periods
 1 l The artistic from 1450 to 1900. This was the period of the Renaissance. En- l thusiasm spread for collection, ancient
 sulrtures, coins and gems, not so much as historical monuments but en- | joy ment was the object. At this time | the beginning of the great Italian mu- | SeumS were made.
 ? The Antiquarian from 1900 to 1750. Antiquarianism deals with relics of the past rather as objects of mere
 curiosity. or interesting because of l tended to the making of collections l known. Rome was the central point | of these studies. The Earl of Arundel | in the reign of James I was the first | Englishman to collect antiques from
 Italy. and Asia Minor. They are now
 in the Ashmolean museum in Oxford l Systematic travel for this discovery l of buildings and works of art was be- l gun by Spon and Wheeler G675-1676l | but the discovery of Pompeii in 174s
 opened new chapter in the history l of ancient art. The first excavations were made in 174S and were carried or for years with very limited success | By the excavations we are afforded 6 very realistic picture of life in 2
 small provincial city of Italy during
 the first century after Christ Many years must elapse before the entire city can be laid bare. The city O. Herculanennic now lies at depth o 30 to 120 feet below the surface Tht art relics found here far exceed il value and interest those found in Pom I peii.
 The excavation of buried citie. shirting Vesuvius and the unexpected great discovery of Etruscan Tombl ushered in new era in archaeological
 research dating from 1750.
 Winckelmann was the first to in tT00uCR historical ms int
 treatment of an ancient art and tt
 show how it embodied the ideas O. the great people of the ancient world
 He was succeeded by Leasing ant Sir William Hamilton but 1t wa' Thomas Bruce, Lord Elgin, who frs
 made Creek art really known il modern times. Through him hundred. Of cases filled with sculptures and cast:
 which he was allowed to make wer. T shipped to England. The act of LorC less in the removal of some of the
 marbles Elgin's workmen wrought considerable damage to those that re. mained in the Parthenon after the ex- T plosion of 1887 but a large portion o1 I the sculptures were not in place and l for destruction by the Turkish garri- l son. Their present condition shows what would have been the fate of oth-
 CTS had they been left behind. A I conSiQerdDle mass were DurneQ tC l furnish lime for mortar
 While the E1gin marbles were await l ing their final disposition two other 1 important series of Greek sculptures | were added to the European museums These were obtained by the excava- I ticns of the two sites Bassae, from | which we have the Phigalian mar I bles and Aegina, from which were | taken the ruins of the temple of
 Aphaiae. The sculptured frieze oi | the temple of Apollo was taken in 1874 | to the British museum.
 l After mentioning in detail the va l rious additions to our knowledge o1 1 Greek archaeology that have been l made by the discoveries and explora = l ticns carried on, Miss Crowell pointed l out how the great undertakings of the | last few decades have been aided by I political events, but the increase in wealth and the greater ease and rapi- dity of travel, and by changes and geological work. By the aid of pho- tceraphy the archaelogist of today | commands a more accurate acquaint- ance with the entire field than was atteinable without it's aid when the entire field was vastly less extensive 1 than it is now. Yet there is still i'm portant work to be done in spite of l the vast and rapid progress Of the 1 last two centuries.
 After the reading of the paper some
 real terra cottas were shown which | were purchased in Greece by Harry Kent curator of the Slater Memorial
 They were bought for the museum at l the request of Dr. R. P. Keep, who I was then principal of the Norwich Free
 academy
 | af foU n haar1 n1 d.