Catálogo Museo Colonial

Description:

The fourth volume of the catalogue of the collections of the Museo Colonial is dedicated to the collection of religious and secular silverware and is an updated and accurate list of each of the pieces that today make up the set of silverware works of the Museo Colonial. Equally important for the composition of this volume was the exhaustive review of the Historical Archive of the Colonial Museum, whose records testify how the silverware of the Museum has been extensively looted, a fact that has marked important transformations in the conformation of this collection and on which I will stop punctually later. Another source of documentation considered for this catalogue was the bibliographic review of silverware belonging to the Library of the Museum, enriched in recent years thanks to the fruitful dialogue with fellow historians, curators and museum directors who house in their valuable collections of silverware and jewelry documented in books of particular interest. Thus, the Museo Nacional del Virreinato in Tepotzotlán (Mexico), the Museo de Arte de Lima (Peru) and the Denver Museum of Art (USA), among others, made available the books that have served as a source of consultation in the research and study of our collections.ʺ (HKB Translation) Page 11. Includes an Annex of stolen pieces from the silverware collection. The fourth volume of the catalogue of the collections of the Museo Colonial is dedicated to the collection of religious and secular silverware and is an updated and accurate list of each of the pieces that today make up the set of silverware works of the Museo Colonial. Equally important for the composition of this volume was the exhaustive review of the Historical Archive of the Colonial Museum, whose records testify how the silverware of the Museum has been extensively looted, a fact that has marked important transformations in the conformation of this collection and on which I will stop punctually later. Another source of documentation considered for this catalogue was the bibliographic review of silverware belonging to the Library of the Museum, enriched in recent years thanks to the fruitful dialogue with fellow historians, curators and museum directors who house in their valuable collections of silverware and jewelry documented in books of particular interest. Thus, the Museo Nacional del Virreinato in Tepotzotlán (Mexico), the Museo de Arte de Lima (Peru) and the Denver Museum of Art (USA), among others, made available the books that have served as a source of consultation in the research and study of our collections.ʺ (HKB Translation) Page 11. Includes an Annex of stolen pieces from the silverware collection.

subjects: Catalogs,  Church plate,  Silver-plated ware,  Silverwork,  Religious life and customs,  Museo de Arte Colonial (Bogotá, Colombia)

Places: Colombia