Owning the past : why the English collected antique sculpture, 1640-1840 / Ruth Guilding.
Published / Created:
New Haven : Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, [2014]
Physical Description:
vi, 410 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Terms:
Sculpture, Classical -- Collectors and collecting -- England -- History.