Nathan Flis
Nathan Flis is head of exhibitions and publications and assistant curator of seventeenth-century paintings at the Yale Center for British Art.
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Description: The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World
Andrew Moore (Editor), Nathan Flis (Editor), Francesca Vanke (Editor)
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00266
The Paston Treasure, a spectacular painting from the 1660s now held at Norwich Castle Museum, depicts a wealth of objects from the collection of a local landed family. This deeply researched volume uses the painting as a portal to the history of the collection, exploring the objects, their context, and the wider world they occupied.  Drawing on an impressive range of fields, including history of art and collections, technical art history, musicology, history of science, and the social and cultural history of the 17th century, the book weaves together narratives of the family and their possessions, as well as the institutions that eventually acquired them.  Essays, vignettes, and catalogue entries comprise this multidisciplinary exposition, uniting objects depicted in the painting for the first time in nearly 300 years.
Author
Andrew Moore (Editor), Nathan Flis (Editor), Francesca Vanke (Editor)
Print publication date April 2018 (in print)
Print ISBN 9780300232905
EISBN 9780300263473
Illustrations 485
Print Status in print
Description: The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World
Thomas Pecke (1637—c. 1664) published the above ode in 1659, just four years before the death of its dedicatee, Sir William Paston, first Baronet (1610–1663).The ode was published in Pecke’s Parnassi Puerperium, 1659, 179; McLellan, “Pecke, Thomas (b. 1637, d. in or after...
PublisherYale Center for British Art
Related print edition pages: pp.186-199
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00266.016
Description: William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum
It might be said that William Hunter preserved the remains of his teacher and mentor James Douglas, MD, FRS (1675–1742), a fellow Scot who served as Physician Extraordinary to Queen Caroline. While Douglas’s body was interred at the church of St Andrew’s, Holborn, the rest of his physical legacy is held mainly among Hunter’s collections at the University of Glasgow, which reveal that the protégé kept an astonishing number of the master’s possessions: a profusion of papers,The Douglas papers are now part of the Archives and Special Collections at the University of Glasgow Library. They first came to light in 1908, when they were housed in the Blackburn Cabinet at the Hunterian Museum; see John Young and P. H. Aitken, A Catalogue of the MSS in the Library of the Hunterian Museum in the University of Glasgow (Glasgow: MacLehose & Sons, 1908). The papers were subsequently catalogued by K. Bryn Thomas in James Douglas of the Pouch and His Pupil William Hunter (London: Pitman Medical Publish
PublisherYale Center for British Art
Related print edition pages: pp.49-71
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00250.003
Description: William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00250
William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum accompanies a groundbreaking exhibition organized by the Hunterian at the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art, to celebrate the 2018 tercentenary of The Hunterian’s founder, Dr. William Hunter (1718–1783). This publication is the first in 150 years to assess the contribution made by Hunter, the Scottish-born obstetrician, anatomist, and collector, to the development of the modern museum as a public institution.

Essays examine how Hunter gathered his collection to be used as a source of knowledge and instruction, encompassing outstanding paintings and works on paper, coins and medals, and anatomical and zoological specimens. Hunter also possessed ethnographic artifacts from Spain, the Middle East, China, and the South Pacific, and was an avid collector of medieval manuscripts and incunabula; these were all located within one of the most important “working” libraries of eighteenth-century London.

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Print publication date November 2018 (in print)
Print ISBN 9780300236651
EISBN 9780300260762
Illustrations 389
Print Status in print