Collecting Classical Sculpture in Britain Since 1750

Zusatztext A very useful addition to the growing bookshelf dealing with the history of collecting Informationen zum Autor Viccy Coltman is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Viccy Coltman, Coltman Viccy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2009
• EAN: 9780199551262
• ISBN: 978-0-19-955126-2
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Classical Presences; Classical Presences
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Japan, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, ART / History / General, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, ART / European, Art & Art Instruction, ART / Sculpture & Installation, sculpture, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary theory, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE