
The Lustrous Trade
Material Culture and the History of Sculpture in England and Italy, c.1700-c.1860
Frances Pinter Publishers Ltd
Published on 1. January 2001
Book
Hardback
290 pages
978-0-7185-0209-6 (ISBN)
Description
In recent years, the Anglo-Italian sphere of artistic exchange in relation to painting has been an increasingly productive area of research. Here, contributors shift the focus onto the two countries' equally significant sculpture trade. This volume of selected essays by economic and social historians and historians of material culture and art investigates the varied roles and functions of sculpture and the ways in which this particular cultural exchange was manifested. Issues of business and the markets for sculpture are highlighted, both in the context of producers of highart and in the wider market of religious, garden and decorative sculpture.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
602 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7185-0209-6 (9780718502096)
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Cinzia Sicca | Alison Yarrington
The Lustrous Trade
Material Culture and the History of Sculpture in England and Italy, C.1700-C.1860
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Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Persons
Cinzia Sicca is associate professor of history of European art at the Univeristy of Pisa. Alison Yarrington is professor of history of art at the University of Leicester.
Content
Introduction, Cinzia Sicca and Alison Yarrington; recasting George I - sculpture, the royal image and the market, Barbara Arciszweska; Camillo Rusconi in English collections, Frank Martin; the trade of luxury goods in Livorno and Florence in the 18th century, Elena Lazzarini; gentlemen of virtue - morality and representation in English 18th century tomb sculpture, Christiano Giometti; contacts and contracts - Sir Henry Cheere and the formation of a new commercial world of sculpture in mid-18th century London, Matthew Craske; "the ornaments of building" - the use of sculpture in English neo-Palladian architecture, Cinzia Sicca; sheep, shepherds and wild beasts cut artificially in stone - production and consumption of garden sculpture in 18th century Genoa, Lauro Magnani; Anglo-Italian attitudes - Chantrey and Canova, Alison Yarrington; the marble trade - the Lazzerini workshop and the arts, crafts and entrepreneurs of Carrara in the early 19th century, Luisa Passegia; Carlo Marochetti - maintaining distinction in an international sculpture market, Phillip Ward Jackson; Belzoni's collecting and the Egyptian taste, Susan M.Pearce; between fine art and manufacture - the beginnings of Italian Mediaeval and Renaissance sculpture at the South Kensington Museum, Donata Levi; "enjoyment for the thousands" -sculpture as fine and ornamental art at South Kensington, Christopher Whitehead.