Rome, travel and the sculpture capital, c.1770-1825

Abstract

This book pieces together the labyrinthine sculptors' world of Rome between 1770 and 1825. The volume sheds new light on the links connecting Neo-classicism, sculpture collecting, Enlightenment aesthetics, studio culture, and queer studies.

Contents

Introduction: 'close up and far away' / Tomas Macsotay -- Restoring and making sculpture in eighteenth-century Rome: a shared practice / Chiara Piva -- Promoting sculpture in eighteenth-century Rome: exhibitions, art criticism, public / Susanne Adina Meyer -- Bringing modern Rome to Chatsworth: the formation of the 6th Duke of Devonshire's sculpture collection / Alison Yarrington -- Truly transnational? sculpture studios in Rome after the Restoration / Christina Ferando -- In the shadow of the star: career strategies of sculptors in Rome in the Age of Canova (c.1780-1820) / Daniella Gallo -- Canova and his German friends / Johannes Myssok -- Multiple views, contours and sculptural narration: aesthetic notions of neoclassical sculpture in and out of Rome / Roland Kanz -- Sculptor and tourist: John Flaxman and his Italian journals and sketchbooks (1787-1794) / Eckart Marchand -- Struggle and the memorial relief: John Deare's Caesar Invading Britain / Tomas Macsotay -- The sculptor, the Duke and queer art patronage: John Gibson's Mars Restrained by Cupid and Winckelmannian aesthetics / Roberto C. Ferrari.