Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace classical sculpture and modern Britain, 1854-1936 /

Kate Nichols examines the debates that arose around the presentation of classical plaster casts to a mass audience at the Sydenham Crystal Palace, in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. It uncovers the social, political, and aesthetic role of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture in Victoria...

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Main Author: Nichols, Kate,
Other Authors: Oxford Scholarship Online.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
Edition: First edition.
Series: Classical presences.
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