Classical Sculpture and the Culture of Collecting in Britain since 1760

Viccy Coltman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2009
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-955126-2 (ISBN)

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A fully illustrated study of the reception of classical sculptures in the early modern period. Viccy Coltman contrasts the culture of British eighteenth-century collecting, which integrated sculpture into the domestic interior, with the focus upon individual specimens by classical archaeologists like Adolf Michaelis a century later.

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.

Viccy Coltman is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh.

Introduction: Lord Lansdowne's Wounded Amazon ; 1. 'The loving labours of a learned German': Adolf Michaelis and the Historiography of Classical Sculpture in Britain ; 2. 'The spoils of Roman grandeur': Correspondence Collecting and the Market in Rome ; 3. The Operations of Sculpture: (Re)writing Restoration ; 4. Collecting and Global Politics: The Export of Marbles from Rome and their Transport to Britain ; 5. 'The lecture on Venus's arse'; Richard Cosway's 'Charles Townley with a group of connoisseurs', c.1771-5 ; 6. 'Placed with propriety': The Display and Viewing of Ancient Sculpture ; 7. 'Casting a lustful eye': Townley as Collector and Cataloguer ; Conclusion: Joseph Nollekens' 'The Judgment of Paris'

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.8.2009
Reihe/Serie	Classical Presences
Zusatzinfo	32pp colour plates and 85 halftones
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 241 mm
Gewicht	790 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-955126-X / 019955126X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-955126-2 / 9780199551262
Zustand	Neuware