Owning the past : why the English collected antique sculpture, 1640-1840 /
Guilding, Ruth,author.
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art,issuing body.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Annexing history: Lord Arundel, Lord Pembroke and their ancient marbles -- Atavism in a Palladian frame: myths of ancestry and new Romans -- Temples of liberty and other polemics -- Buying (and selling) taste -- Competing for reputation -- A partial enlightenment -- The connoisseurship of libertinism: a diversion -- Recreating the antique as neoclassical ideal -- Memorials, souvenirs and speaking stones -- The romantic museum: antique sculpture in the public realm.
Sculpture, Classical