Figured in marble : the making and viewing of eighteenth-century sculpture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baker, Malcolm
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • Addressing Sculpture
  • Shaping Sculptural Histories
  • Sculptors' Lives and Sculptors' travels
  • Narratives of Making: The Interpretation of Sculptors' Drawings and Models
  • Museum pieces? Re-contextualising the Eighteenth-century Monument
  • Design, Materials and Making
  • The Commissioning and Making of Lord Shelburne's 'costly fabrick'
  • Collaboration and Sub-contracting in eighteenth-century British Sculptors' Workshops
  • Making and Viewing Bronze Sculpture
  • Categories and Genres
  • Portrait Busts of Architects in Eighteenth-century Britain
  • A Family Affair: Rysbrack's Foley Monument, Family Tombs and the Conversation Piece
  • 'Squabby Cupids and Clumsy Graces': Garden Sculpture and Luxury in Eighteenth-century England
  • Collecting, Displaying and Viewing
  • Ancient and Modern, French and English, War and Peace: The Sculpture in the Duke of Argyll's Gallery at Adderbury
  • Collecting and Viewing Small Bronzes, 1750-1850
  • Canova's Three Graces and Changing Attitudes to Sculpture.