Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace
Classical Sculpture and Modern Britain, 1854-1936
The marble halls of the British Museum might seem the natural habitat for classical sculpture, but in the nineteenth century its sombre displays were far from being the only place that people encountered antiquities. From 1854, a rival collection of classical sculpture, comprising plaster casts from major European museums and scaled down architectural features, was on show in the South London suburb of Sydenham, in the Crystal Palace which had housed the GreatExhibition of 1851. By the late 1850s, two million visitors were passing through the glass doors of the Sydenham Crystal Palace each year, more than twice as many as recorded at the Brit…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-101691-2
- EAN: 9780191016912
- Produktnummer: 18403597
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 20'511 KB
- Abbildungen: 33 black and white illustrations
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Kate Nichols is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Cambridge.
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