Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Mediterranean Antiquities, Vol. 1, The Ancient Glass

This catalogue raisonné describes a little-known but very interesting collection originally assembled by one of the important Canadian collectors of the early 20th century. After an account of the collection's history and a brief discussion of the techniques of ancient glass-making, the catalogue proper presents 191 pieces comprising a very wide range of typical forms, each of them fully illustrated. Publishing this extensive collection renders it available to a wide readership: students, curators, archaeologists, art historians, collectors and everybody with serious interest in the material culture of the ancient world. It is the first of a series intended to make public the different parts of the museum's collection of Mediterranean antiquities.

Beaudoin Caron D ès L (1986) in Roman history and archaeology, Université de Grenoble III, teaches Classical Archaeology and Roman History at the Université de Montréal. He has published mainly on Roman glass, as well as on other aspects of ancient material culture.

Eléni P. Zoïtopoúlou Lic Phil (1973) in Classical Archaeology, Athens University, was a member of the Greek Antiquities' Service. Later, as honorary curator in the Ethnology section of the McGill University's Redpath Museum, she published widely on ancient terracotta pieces (lamps and statuettes).

"Il Volume,dalla accurata edizione, costituisce in sintesi, sia per i testi, sia per la parte illustrativa, un utile strumento di lavoro e di confronto per materiali vitrei da contesti di varia cronologiae di varia area geografica e rientra nella migliore tradizione di cataloghi del vetro antico."
Lucia Amalia Scatozza-Höricht, Notices, 2009

“The series Monumenta Graeca et Romana provides welcome access to collections large and small. This second volume of the Mediterranean antiquities in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is a valuable addition to the growing corpus of ancient and medieval lamps and terracotta figures.”
Helen Nagy, University of Puget Sound, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.11.19