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Author Coltman, Viccy.

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

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 315 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Classical presences
Classical presences.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-299) and index.
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.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Sculpture, Classical -- Collectors and collecting -- Great Britain -- History.
Sculpture, Classical -- Collectors and collecting.
Great Britain.
History.
Sculpture, Classical.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1760-1800
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Catalogs.
Catalogs.
Other Form: Print version: Coltman, Viccy. Classical sculpture and the culture of collecting in Britain since 1760. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 9780199551262 (DLC) 2009930573 (OCoLC)264023538
ISBN 9780191568251 (electronic book)
0191568252 (electronic book)
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9781283222624
9780199551262
019955126X