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 individualspecimens by classical archaeologists like Adolf Michaelis a century later. Her study is comprehensively illustrated with over 100 photographs.
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