The Lustrous Trade

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

Cinzia Sicca, Alison Yarrington, Cinzia Sicca, Alison Yarrington

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2001
• Print ISBN:
  9780718502096
• eBook ISBN:
  9781441185907
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: American Art

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 of religious, garden and decorative sculpture.

Table of contents

• 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