The marble index : Roubiliac and sculptural portraiture in eighteenth-century Britain / Malcolm Baker.
Published / Created:
New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, [2014]
Physical Description:
xiii, 418 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [378]-394) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: addressing the sculptural portrait -- The place of sculptural portraiture -- Sculptural conventions and meaning -- Setting up the head and the statue -- Making images -- A portrait sculptor, his sitters and his viewers: Roubiliac and his career -- Celebrating the illustrious -- Groups, networks and connections -- Contemporary heads.
Subject Terms:
Portrait sculpture, British -- 18th century. | Roubiliac, Louis François, 1702–1762 -- Criticism and interpretation.