Classical Sculpture and the Culture of Collecting in Britain since 1760(English, Hardcover, Coltman Viccy)

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Classical Sculpture and the Culture of Collecting in Britain since 1760(English, Hardcover, Coltman Viccy) is written by Coltman Viccy and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 019955126X (ISBN 10) and 9780199551262 (ISBN 13).

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.