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

by Sicca, Cinzia; Yarrington, Alison

• ISBN13: 9780718502096
• ISBN10: 0718502094
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-27
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

In recent years, the Anglo-Italian sphere of artistic exchange in relation to painting has been an increasingly productive area of research. Here, contributors shift the focus onto the two countries' equally significant sculpture trade. This volume of selected essays by economic and social historians and historians of material culture and art investigates the varied roles and functions of sculpture and the ways in which this particular cultural exchange was manifested. Issues of business and the markets for sculpture are highlighted, both in the context of producers of "high" art and in the wider market for religious, garden, and decorative sculpture.

Table of Contents

List of Plates	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Notes on Contributors	xi
Introduction	1	(26)
Cinzia Sicca
Alison Yarrington
Re-casting George I: Sculpture, the Royal Image and the Market	27	(22)
Barbara Arciszewska
Camillo Rusconi in English Collections	49	(18)
Frank Martin
The Trade of Luxury Goods in Livorno and Florence in the Eighteenth Century	67	(10)
Elena Lazzarini
Gentlemen of Virtue: Morality and Representation in English Eighteenth-century Tomb Sculpture	77	(17)
Cristiano Giometti
Contacts and Contracts: Sir Henry Cheere and the Formation of a New Commercial World of Sculpture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London	94	(20)
Matthew Craske
`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	114	(18)
Lauro Magnani
Anglo-Italian Attitudes: Chantrey and Canova	132	(24)
Alison Yarrington
The Marble Trade: The Lazzerini Workshop and the Arts, Crafts and Entrepreneurs of Carrara in the Early Nineteenth Century	156	(18)
Luisa Passeggia
Carlo Marochetti: Maintaining Distinction in an International Sculpture Market	174	(17)
Philip Ward-Jackson
Belzoni's Collecting and the Egyptian Taste	191	(20)
Susan M. Pearce
Between Fine Art and Manufacture: The Beginnings of Italian Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture at the South Kensington Museum	211	(11)
Donata Levi
`Enjoyment for the Thousands': Sculpture as Fine and Ornamental Art at South Kensington, 1852-62	222	(18)
Christopher Whitehead
Bibliography	240	(27)
Index	267