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Classical Sculpture and the Enlightenment
25 minutes
Color
Recommended audience age range 18-adult
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Additional information
Order number: 327
The Grand Tour took many people of taste and wealth to Italy in the eighteenth century and encouraged the collecting of antique works of art. This program concentrates on one important British collector, Charles Townley, whose collection of marbles is in the British Museum. Gerard Vaughan of Oxford University talks to Colin Cunningham of the Open University about a number of Townley's most important marbles. They discuss the problems of interpreting the subject of sculptures and the question of restoration. Publications illustrating Greek and Roman works of art influenced British taste, as did the displays of the works themselves. Among the volumes shown are the works from Pompeii and Herculaneum published by the King of Naples.
Credits -
Director
Robert Philip
Presenters
Colin Cunningham
Gerard Vaughan
Open University/BBC
