Full Name: Hall, Isaac H.
Other Names:
- Isaac Hollister Hall
Gender: male
Date Born: 1837
Date Died: 1896
Home Country/ies: United States
Subject Area(s): Ancient Greek (culture or style), Antique, the, Christianity, sculpture (visual works), and Syriac Orthodox
Career(s): curators
Institution(s): Metropolitan Museum of Art
Overview
Syriac and Greek scholar, first curator for sculptures, antiquities [and objet d’art] at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Selected Bibliography
The Stone Sculpture of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in Halls 5 and 3. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1895; “Cypriote inscriptions of the Di Cesnola collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 10 (1875): 201-218; and Dobbins, Frank S., and Williams, S. Wells. Story of the World’s Worship. Chicago: Dominion Co., 1901; American Greek Testaments: A Critical Bibliography of the Greek New Testament as Published in America. Philadelphia: Pickwick and Co., 1883
Sources
Tomkins, Calvin. Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2nd. ed. New York: Henry Holt, 1989, p. 79.
Contributors: Lee Sorensen