{"id":588,"date":"2018-05-30T17:08:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T17:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/?p=588"},"modified":"2018-06-06T14:33:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T14:33:12","slug":"antique-coptic-textiles-in-mcmullen-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/antique-coptic-textiles-in-mcmullen-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Antique Coptic Textiles in McMullen Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College received a generous gift of thirty four\u00a0Late Antique Coptic textiles from the Newton collectors Donald and Barbara Tellalian.\u00a0 \u00a0The textiles range in time from the IV to VIII centuries. In prior years these pieces were exhibited at the MFA Boston, RISD, and other venues as well as appearing in the McMullen Museum&#8217;s\u00a0 &#8220;Roman in the Provinces: Art on the Periphery of Empire&#8221; exhibit in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the gift, there is also an accompanying\u00a0collection of 129 books and folios that will be added to Boston College Libraries.\u00a0 In addition to books on Coptic art and textiles, there are titles on a variety of\u00a0subjects such as art, architecture, textiles and costumes of ancient Egypt, Armenia, Greece, Rome, Islamic and Byzantine civilizations, and more.\u00a0 The collection also includes books on the restoration\u00a0and conservation of textiles, as well as several museum catalogs and catalogs of private collections that hold Coptic Textiles.\u00a0 Some of the books, such as\u00a0&#8220;Nouveaux Textiles de Palmyre&#8221;, cover geographic areas that are sadly out of reach to researches for now.\u00a0 The depth and breadth of this book collection is amazing and makes it a unique and precious source for the study of Late Antique Coptic Textiles.\u00a0 We are very fortunate and grateful to Donald and Barbara Tellalian that we received this wonderful gift.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-590\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/textile.png\" alt=\"Late Antique Coptic textiles \" width=\"764\" height=\"1018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/textile.png 764w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/textile-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston College and the BC Libraries received a gift of Late Antique Coptic Textiles and a related library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[62],"series":[61],"coauthors":[21],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-summer-2018","series-summer-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}