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Owning the past : why the English collected antique sculpture, 1640-1840
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Owning the past : why the English collected antique sculpture, 1640-1840

Ruth Guilding

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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.

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Owning the past : why the English collected antique sculpture, 1640-1840 by Ruth Guilding. ISBN 9780300208191. Published by Yale University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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