Haskell, Francis, 1928-2000

Taste and the antique : the lure of classical sculpture, 1500-1900 / Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c1981. - xvi, 376 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 344-365.

I. 'A new Rome' -- II. The public and private collections of Rome -- III. Plaster casts and prints -- IV. Control and codification -- V. Casts and copies in seventeenth-century courts -- VI. 'Tout ce qu'il y a de beau en Italie' -- VII. Erudite interests -- VIII. Florence: The impact of the Tribuna -- IX. Museums in eighteenth-century Rome -- X. The new importance of Naples -- XI. The proliferation of casts and copies -- XII. New fashions in the copying of antiquities -- XIII. Reinterpretations of antiquity -- XIV The last dispersals -- XV Epilogue.

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Sculpture, Classical--Appreciation
Mythology, Classical, in art

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