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Author:   Malcolm Baker ,  Inge Reist
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   10
Weight:   0.794kg
ISBN:  

9789004458468

ISBN 10:   9004458468
Pages:   342
Publication Date:   23 June 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Foreword List of Illustrations Contributors Variety and Ambiguity: What Do We Mean by a “Sculpture Collection”?  Malcolm Baker part 1: Sculpture in the Kunstkammer: Contexts, Formation, and Dispersal 1 Sculpture Collecting and the Kunstkammer  Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann 2 The Collecting of Small Bronze Sculptures in Late Renaissance Italy: The Canonici Collection  Jeremy Warren 3 Shifting Perceptions and Changing Frameworks: The Case of Francis van Bossuit and the Place of Small-Scale Sculpture in Ivory in the Sculpture Collection  Malcolm Baker part 2: Garden Sculptures as Collections 4 Gentlemen Prefer Bronze: Garden Sculpture and Sculpture Gardens in Britain (1720–1860)  Julius Bryant 5 The Sculpture Gardens of Versailles, Marly, and Dresden: Magnificence and Its Limits  Betsy Rosasco part 3: The Sculpture Gallery and Dedicated Spaces for Sculpture 6 The ‘Gallerie du S.r Girardon Sculpteur Ordinaire du Roy’  Anne-Lise Desmas 7 Porcelain as Sculpture: Medium, Materiality, and the Categories of Eighteenth-Century Collecting  Michael Yonan 8 Art and Nature: The Country House Sculpture Gallery in the Post-Napoleonic Period  Alison Yarrington part 4: The Changing Place of Sculpture in the Public Museum 9 The Public Art Gallery as Arena for Modern Sculpture  Alex Potts 10 Displaying Deceit: Alceo Dossena’s Tomb of Maria Catharina Sabello at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Andrew McClellan and Marietta Cambareri 11 The Legacy of William Valentiner in Shaping the Display and Collecting of European Sculpture in American Museums, 1900–Present: Case Studies  Alan Phipps Darr Bibliography Index

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Malcolm Baker, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of California, Riverside. As both a curator and a university teacher, he has written widely on the history of sculpture; his most recent book is The Marble Index. Roubiliac and Sculptural Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Inge Jackson Reist (Ph.D., Columbia University); Founding Director (now Emerita) of the Center for the History of Collecting, The Frick Collection. Reist’s edited and authored publications focus on Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art and the History of Art Collecting.

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