THE LANSDOWNE SCULPTURE COLLECTION, SCATTERED ACROSS THE ENTIRE WORLD, IS REUNITED AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN TWO VOLUMES
REVIVAL OF THIS MAGNIFICENT PRIVATE COLLECTION, THE MOST FAMOUS IN BRITAIN FOR 150 YEARS
RICHLY DESIGNED, WITH NUMEROUS PHOTOS, DOCUMENTS AND LETTERS
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Reconstructing the Lansdowne Collection of Classical Marbles
The Lansdowne Collection once included 100 classical sculptures. It was essentially started by Gavin Hamilton (1723–1798), one of the most successful British explorers of the sites of antiquity during the 18th century. His enthusiasm and his acute aesthetic judgement inspired his patrons to assemble the collection for the specially designed gallery in Lansdowne-House.
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For a long time the famous private collection, created between the late 1760s and the 1820s, formed the heart of the Lansdowne mansion in London before it was dispersed after 1930. Elizabeth Angelicoussis, expert for Roman sculpture in private British houses, has reunited the works, now scattered across the globe, in two art books. The first one illustrates, for example, the history of the formation of the collection and the gallery. The second volume catalogues and assesses each known sculpture and assigns it a place in current research and within the context of Roman art history.
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728 pages (Volume I + II), 548 illustrations
23 × 28 cm, hardcover, linen with dust jacket
23 × 28 cm, hardcover, linen with dust jacket
ISBN: 978-3-7774-2817-8
Keywords
Landsdown, Lansdown, Hamilton, Marble, Roman
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