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Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace - Classical Sculpture and Modern Britain, 1854-1936 (Hardcover)
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Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace - Classical Sculpture and Modern Britain, 1854-1936 (Hardcover)
Series: Classical Presences
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The marble halls of the British Museum might seem the natural
habitat for classical sculpture, but in the nineteenth century its
sombre displays were far from being the only place that people
encountered antiquities. From 1854, a rival collection of classical
sculpture, comprising plaster casts from major European museums and
scaled down architectural features, was on show in the South London
suburb of Sydenham, in the Crystal Palace which had housed the
Great Exhibition of 1851. By the late 1850s, two million visitors
were passing through the glass doors of the Sydenham Crystal Palace
each year, more than twice as many as recorded at the British
Museum. Many more people, and from a greater variety of social
strata, saw the painted cast of the Parthenon frieze in Sydenham
than the original in Bloomsbury. Utilizing an extensive variety of
archival material, including diaries, scrapbooks and photographs,
Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace evokes visitor experiences at
Sydenham, and examines the discussion that arose around the
presentation of classical plaster casts to a mass audience. It
uncovers the social, political, and aesthetic role of ancient Greek
and Roman sculpture in modern Britain, assessing how classical art
figured in debates over design reform, taste, beauty and morality,
class and gender, and race and imperialism.
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