Reconstructing the Lansdowne Collection of Classical Marbles - Rilegato

Angelicoussis, Elizabeth

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ISBN 10: 3777428175 ISBN 13: 9783777428178

Casa editrice: Hirmer Verlag, 2017

Riassunto

Begun by Gavin Hamilton (1723&;98), one of the most prominent British explorers of classical sites of the eighteenth century, the Lansdowne Collection came to hold more than one hundred stellar examples of classical statuary, displayed in a specially designed gallery in Lansdowne-House in London. The collection, however, was dispersed in the years after 1930, and its works are now scattered across the globe. This book reunites the collection for the first time in nearly ninety years, under the expert guidance of Roman sculpture specialist Elizabeth Angelicoussis. The first volume of this set relates the history of the collection and the gallery, while the second catalogs and assess each known sculpture and sets it in the context of the most current research into Roman art history.
 

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Elizabeth Angelicoussis is a fellow of the Society of Antiquarians, a member of the Institute of Classical Studies, London, and a senior member of the American School of Classical Studies, Athens.
 
 

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The Lansdowne Collection once included 100 classical sculptures. It was essentially started by Gavin Hamilton (1723 – 1798), one of the most successful British explorers of the sites of antiquity during the 18th century. His enthusiasm and his acute aesthetic judgement inspired his patrons to assemble the collection for the specially designed gallery in Lansdowne - House. For a long time the famous private collection, created between the late 1760s and the 1820s, formed the heart of the Lansdowne mansi on in London before it was dispersed after 1930. Elizabeth Angelicoussis, expert for Roman sculpture in private British houses, has reunited the works, now scattered across the globe, in two art books. The first one illustrates, for example, the history of the formation of the collection and the gallery. The second volume catalogues and assesses each known sculpture and assigns it a place in current research and within the context of Roman art history .

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Hirmer Verlag
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3777428175
• ISBN 13: 9783777428178
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 728
• Redattore: Hill Gerard M-F
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile