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Subject(s)

• Sculptors—Italy—Rome [Browse]
• Sculpture, European—18th century [Browse]
• Sculpture, European—19th century [Browse]
• Neoclassicism (Art)—Italy—Rome [Browse]
• Sculpture—Collectors and collecting—Europe—History—18th century [Browse]
• Sculpture—Collectors and collecting—Europe—History—19th century [Browse]
• Rome (Italy)—Intellectual life—18th century [Browse]
• Rome (Italy)—Intellectual life—19th century [Browse]

Editor

• Macsotay, Tomas [Browse]

Summary note

This book pieces together the labyrinthine sculptors' world of Rome between 1770 and 1825. The volume sheds new light on the links connecting Neo-classicism, sculpture collecting, Enlightenment aesthetics, studio culture, and queer studies.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-268) and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Introduction: 'close up and far away' / Tomas Macsotay
• Restoring and making sculpture in eighteenth-century Rome: a shared practice / Chiara Piva
• promoting sculpture in eighteenth-century Rome: exhibitions, art criticism, public / Susanne Adina Meyer
• Bringing modern Rome to Chatsworth: the formation of the 6th Duke of Devonshire's sculpture collection / Alsion Yarrington
• Truly transnational? sculpture studios in Rome after the Restoration / Christina Ferando
• In the shadow of the star: career strategies of sculptors in Rome in the Age of Canova (c. 1780-1820) / Daniella Gallo
• Canova and his German friends / Johannes Myssok
• Multiple views, contours and sculptural narration: aesthetic notions of neoclassical sculpture in and out of Rome / Roland Kanz
• Sculptor and tourist: John Flaxman and his Italian journals and sketchobooks (1787-1794) / Eckart Marchand
• Struggle and the memorial relief: John Deare's Caesar Invading Britain / Tomas Macsotay
• The sculptor, the Duke and queer art patronage: John Gibson's Mars Restrained by Cupid and Winckelmannian aesthetics / Roberto C. Ferrari.

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ISBN

• 9781472420350 (hardback)
• 1472420357 (hardback)

OCLC

938994579

RCP

H - S

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