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Ashmolean Museum: see under Ashmole, Elias.

The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2007, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

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A new Ribera drawing among Michelangelos: a drawing in the Ashmolean Museum long associated with Michelangelo is here attributed by Carmen C. Bambach to Jose de Ribera. One of his rare drawings in red chalk, it can be linked to the artist's well-known interest in grotesque faces.(Critical essay) (Apollo)

When Michael Vickers received a call at the Ashmolean Museum from Scotland Yard, he little guessed that it was the start of a long investigation into the provenance of some Etruscan terracottas--a story that has finally reached a happy ending.(OXFORD NEWS) (Apollo)

Picture galleries outside London: The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. (Contemporary Review)

The Ashmolean Museum: a brief history of the institution and its collections. (book review) (Antiquity)

Metaphor wins three-year job for Ashmolean Museum.(Brief Article) (Design Week)

Details of #61m Ashmolean refurb unveiled.(Ashmolean Museum contract with Whybrow Signing Consultants)(Brief article) (Design Week)

The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum.(Book review) (Renaissance Quarterly)

The drawings of Michelangelo and his followers in the Ashmolean Museum.(Brief Article)(Book Review) (Reference & Research Book News)

Treasured inheritance: six hundred years of Oxford college silver make a splendid and instructive exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum.(Exhibitions) (Apollo)

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