Classical sculpture and the culture of collecting in Britain since 1760 / Viccy Coltman.

This is a book about classical sculptures in the early modern period, centuries after the decline and fall of Rome, when they began to be excavated, restored, and collected by British visitors in Italy in the second half of the eighteenth century. Viccy Coltman contrasts the precarious and competiti...

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Main Author: Coltman, Viccy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:Classical presences.
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