Sentence examples for build antiquities from inspiring English sources

The group acknowledged that it would be more difficult for its museums to build antiquities collections, but would also slow the flow of objects that have been illegally collected.

The Association of Art Museum Directors, whose 190 members also include leaders of Canadian and Mexican museums, says the new policy will probably make it even more difficult for museums to build antiquities collections through purchases or, as is more often the case, through gifts and bequests from wealthy private collectors.

Frel built the antiquities holding quickly, acquiring showpieces and a huge study collection through purchases and gifts, but he was forced to retire in 1984 after disclosures that he had traded inflated appraisals for donated antiquities.

And, indeed, many sophisticated animated devices were actually built in antiquity, reaching a climax with the creation of a host of automata in the ancient city of learning, Alexandria, the original Silicon Valley.

The civic pride of Florentines found expression in statues of the patron saints commissioned from Ghiberti and Donatello for niches in the grain-market guildhall known as Or San Michele, and in the largest dome built since antiquity, placed by Brunelleschi on the Florence cathedral.

Browne reminds us "Herostratus is remembered that burn the temple of Diana; he is almost forgot that built it" – Herostratus, antiquities' great fame-whore, who managed infamy by destroying one of the wonders of the world.

Armed with the vast wealth inherited from Domenico's father, the merchant and financier Antonio Grimani — who ended his days as Doge of Venice from 1521 to 1523 — Domenico and Giovanni were exceptionally well placed to build up superlative collections of antiquities.

The Syracusia is said to have been the largest ship built in classical antiquity.

It is not, however, necessary to credit the engineers of antiquity with a conscious intention to build forever.

The opportunity to build a village came in 1945, when the Egyptian antiquities authorities hired him to create New Gourna near Luxor in Upper Egypt.

From antiquity, patients, researchers and clinicians have worked together to build a bedrock of knowledge upon which the current practice of medicine stands.