The Lustrous Trade : Material Culture and the History of Sculpture in England and Italy, C. 1700-C. 1860.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF PLATES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Re-casting George I: Sculpture, the Royal Image and the Market -- 2 Camillo Rusconi in English Collections -- 3 The Trade of Luxury Goods in Livorno and Florence in the Eighteenth Century -- 4 Gentlemen of Virtue: Morality and Representation in English Eighteenth-century Tomb Sculpture -- 5 Contacts and Contracts: Sir Henry Cheere and the Formation of a New Commercial World of Sculpture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London -- 6 'Sheep, shepherds, and wild beasts, cut artificially in stone': Production and Consumption of Garden Sculpture in Genoa at the End of the Seventeenth and during the Eighteenth Century -- 7 Anglo-Italian Attitudes: Chantrey and Canova -- 8 The Marble Trade: The Lazzerini Workshop and the Arts, Crafts and Entrepreneurs of Carrara in the Early Nineteenth Century -- 9 Carlo Marochetti: Maintaining Distinction in an International Sculpture Market -- 10 Belzoni's Collecting and the Egyptian Taste -- 11 Between Fine Art and Manufacture: The Beginnings of Italian Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture at the South Kensington Museum -- 12 'Enjoyment for the Thousands': Sculpture as Fine and Ornamental Art at South Kensington, 1852-62 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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