Classical sculpture and the culture of collecting in Britain since 1760

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coltman, Viccy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:Classical presences.
Subjects:
Plastik
Geschichte 1760-1800.
Sculpture, Classical > Collectors and collecting > Great Britain > History.
ART > Sculpture & Installation.
Sculpture, Classical > Collectors and collecting
Antike
Sammlung
Great Britain
Großbritannien
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Lord Lansdowne's Wounded Amazon
  • 'The loving labours of a learned German': Adolf Michaelis and the historiography of classical sculpture in Britain
  • 'The spoils of Roman grandeur': correspondence collecting and the market in Rome
  • The operations of sculpture: (Re) writing restoration
  • Collecting and global politics: the export of marbles from Rome and their transport to Britain
  • "The lecture on Venus's arse: Richard Cosway's Charles Townley with a group of connoisseurs, c.1771-5
  • 'Placed with propriety': the display and viewing of ancient sculpture
  • 'Casting a lustful eye': Charles Townley as collector and cataloguer
  • Conclusion: Joseph Nollekens' The judgement of Paris.

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