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Piranesi's Candelabra and the Presence of the Past - Excessive Objects and the Emergence of a Style in the Age of Neoclassicism (Hardcover)
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Piranesi's Candelabra and the Presence of the Past - Excessive Objects and the Emergence of a Style in the Age of Neoclassicism (Hardcover)
Series: Classical Presences
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Near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78)
created three colossal candelabra mainly from fragments of
sculpture excavated near the Villa Hadriana in Tivoli, two of which
are now in the Ashmolean Museum, and one in the Louvre. Although
they were among the most sought-after and prestigious of his works,
and fetched enormous prices during Piranesi's life, they suffered a
steep decline in appreciation from the 1820s onwards, and even
today they are among the least studied of his works. Piranesi's
Candelabra and the Presence of the Past uncovers the intense
investment, by artists, patrons, collectors, and the public around
the start of the nineteenth century in objects that made
Graeco-Roman Antiquity present again. Caroline van Eck's study
examines how objects make their makers or viewers feel that they
are again in the presence of Antiquity, that not only Antiquity has
revived, but that classical statues become alive under their gaze.
what it takes to make such objects, and what it costs to own them;
and about the ramifications of such intense if not excessive
attachments to artefacts. This book considers the three candelabra
in depth, providing the biography of these objects, from the
excavation of the Roman fragments to their entry into private and
public collection. Van Eck considers the context that Piranesi gave
them by including them in his Vasi, Candelabri e Cippi (1778), to
rethink the processes that led to the development of neoclassicism
from the perspective of the objects and objectscapes that came into
being in Rome at the end of the eighteenth century.
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