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This book discusses the rise of classical sculpture in Britain during the eighteenth century, and how this coincided with the rise of classical archaeology in the same period. It contrasts the culture of collecting of classical sculptures in Britain during the eighteenth century with the more scholarly approach of classical archaeologists a century later. The book is illustrated with over 100 photographs.
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.
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