Classical Sculpture and the Culture of Collecting in Britain since 1760
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 by classical archaeologists like Adolf Michaelis a century later. Her study is comprehensively illustrated with over 100 photographs.
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Classical Sculpture and the Culture of Collecting in Britain since 1760
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 by classical archaeologists like Adolf Michaelis a century later. Her study is comprehensively illustrated with over 100 photographs.
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Classical Sculpture and the Culture of Collecting in Britain since 1760
Classical Sculpture and the Culture of Collecting in Britain since 1760
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780191609534 |
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Publisher: | OUP Oxford |
Publication date: | 08/06/2009 |
Series: | Classical Presences |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
File size: | 18 MB |
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