Main entry:

Haskell, Francis, 1928-2000.

Title & Author:

Taste and the antique : the lure of classical sculpture, 1500-1900 / Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1981.

Description:

xvi, 376 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-365) and index.
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 -- Notes to the text -- Catalogue.

Summary:

A history of the development of critical opinions on ancient Greek and Roman sculpture discusses the owners, identification, copies, and fame of individual statues.

ISBN:

0300026412
9780300026412
0300029136
9780300029130

Subject:

Sculpture, Classical Appreciation.
Mythology, Classical, in art.
Sculpture antique Appréciation.
Mythologie ancienne dans l'art.
Plastische kunst.
Classical antiquities Appreciation.
Sculpture, Greek.

Added entries:

Penny, Nicholas, 1949- author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 186322
Call No.: ID 9561 NB85.H34; ID:87-B4791
Status: Available

Location: Library main 186321
Call No.: ID NB85.H34; ID:87-B4791
Status: Available