Owning the past : why the English collected antique sculpture, 1640-1840 / Ruth Guilding.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guilding, Ruth (Author)
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Sculpture, Classical > Collectors and collecting > England > History.
Sculpture, Classical > Collectors and collecting.
Antike.
Kunstsammler.
Plastik.
Rezeption.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:vi, 410 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 30 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Annexing history: Lord Arundel, Lord Pembroke and their ancient marbles
  • Atavism in a Palladian frame: myths of ancestry and new Romans
  • Temples of liberty and other polemics
  • Buying (and selling) taste
  • Competing for reputation
  • A partial enlightenment
  • The connoisseurship of libertinism: a diversion
  • Recreating the antique as neoclassical ideal
  • Memorials, souvenirs and speaking stones
  • The romantic museum: antique sculpture in the public realm.