| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 315 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Series |
Classical presences |
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Classical presences.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 competitive culture of eighteenth-century collecting, which integrated sculpture into the domestic interior back home in Britain, with the study and publication of individual specimens byclassical archaeologists like Adolf Michaelis a century later. Her study is comprehensively illustrated with over 100 phot |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-299) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| SUBJECT |
Plastik gnd |
| Subject |
Sculpture, Classical -- Collectors and collecting -- Great Britain -- History
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ART -- Sculpture & Installation.
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Sculpture, Classical -- Collectors and collecting
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Antike
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Sammlung
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Great Britain
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Großbritannien
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009930573 |
| ISBN |
9780191568251 |
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0191568252 |
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1283222620 |
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9781283222624 |
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9786613222626 |
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6613222623 |
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