The museum by the park : 14 Queen Anne's Gate from Charles Townley to Axel Johnson /
The story of the house over the centuries features political revolutionaries, occult initiations, clandestine war meetings, and a decapitated head. It begins, however, as a museum of Roman sculpture, unrivalled outside Italy, designed for connoisseur and virtuoso Charles Townley (1737-1805). Townley...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Paul Holberton Publishing,
[2017]
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| Summary: | The story of the house over the centuries features political revolutionaries, occult initiations, clandestine war meetings, and a decapitated head. It begins, however, as a museum of Roman sculpture, unrivalled outside Italy, designed for connoisseur and virtuoso Charles Townley (1737-1805). Townley embodied Enlightenment values perhaps more completely than any other figure in the art world of 18th-century Britain, yet remarkably he has never been the subject of a major publication. The book tells the story of 14 Queen Anne's Gate and examines the extraordinary life of Charles Townley and his remarkable collection of over 150 Roman marble statues (mostly now in the British Museum but captured in spectacular engravings of the period). |
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| Physical Description: | 127 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781911300328 1911300326 |