The pleasures of antiquity - Scott, Jonathan
British collectors of Greece and Rome
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2003Uitgever: Published by Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art340 paginasISBN-10: 0300098545ISBN-13: 9780300098549Koop dit boek tweedehands
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A comprehensive history of antiquity collecting in Great Britain. Jonathan Scott gives portraits of the principal collectors, describes the mechanics of the art trade and collecting, and takes us to beautiful sculpture galleries that were created by such distinguished architects as Robert Adam. By the nineteenth century, connoisseurs from the British Isles had assembled the richest collections of classical antiquities outside Rome. The galleries they created to house the spectacular Greek and Roman statu...
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In the early fifteenth century, when Romans discovered ancient marble sculptures and inscriptions in the ruins, they often melted them into mortar. This book examines the 'long' fifteenth century, a critical period in the history of antiquities collecting that has received scant attention. This lucid and coherent account provides a new overview of the collecting of antiquities in early renaissance Rome, from the time of Petrarch to the Sack of Rome in 1527. In the early 15th century, when Romans discover...
