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

Folger bibliographic ID: 340227
Folger call number: NB85 .G85 2014
Folger holdings ID: 492249

General 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

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

Sculpture, Classical Antike Kunstsammler Plastik Rezeption Gro€britannien

author: Guilding, Ruth