Author:
Haskell, Francis, 1928-2000.
Publisher:New Haven : Yale University Press, 1981.
Description:xvi, 376 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-365) and index.
Note: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.
Note:A history of the development of critical opinions on ancient Greek and Roman sculpture discusses the owners, identification, copies, and fame of individual statues.
