Classical Sculpture and the Culture of Collecting in Britain since 1760

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Art History, General Art, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
Cover of the book Classical Sculpture and the Culture of Collecting in Britain since 1760 by Viccy Coltman, OUP Oxford
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Author: Viccy Coltman ISBN: 9780191609534
Publisher: OUP Oxford Publication: August 6, 2009
Imprint: OUP Oxford Language: English
Author: Viccy Coltman
ISBN: 9780191609534
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication: August 6, 2009
Imprint: OUP Oxford
Language: English

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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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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