Catalogue of the Sculpture Collection at Wilton House
Catalogue of the Sculpture Collection at Wilton House The Wilton House sculptures constituted one of the largest and most celebrated collections of ancient art in Europe. His sources included the…
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Catalogue of the Sculpture Collection at Wilton House
The Wilton House sculptures constituted one of the largest and most celebrated collections of ancient art in Europe. His sources included the famous collection of Cardinal Mazarin, assembled in Paris in the 1640s and 1650s, and recent discoveries on the Via Appia outside Rome. Originally comprising some 340 works, the collection was formed around the late 1710s and 1720s by Thomas Herbert, the eccentric 8th Earl of Pembroke, who stubbornly 're-baptized' his busts and statues with names of his own choosing.
About half of the original collection remains intact today, adorning the Gothic Earl Thomas regarded the sculptures as ancient - some of them among the oldest works of art in existence - but in fact much of the collection is modern and represents the neglected talents of sixteenth-and seventeenth-century artists, restorers and copyists who were inspired by Greek and Roman sculpture.
Wilton House
House at the End of Time
House at the Edge of Magic
House at the Bottom of a Lake
House - The Collection BD
The House at Bishopsgate