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Article: The Pleasures of Antiquity: Gertrud Seidmann welcomes Jonathan Scott's masterly survey of British collectors of Greek and Roman antiquities.(Book Review)
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- March 1, 2004
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If Britain was once described as the richest repository of collections of classical antiquities outside Rome, its status in this league was not owed, as in Paris or Munich, to the zeal of the ruling house--quite the contrary. But for the short span of the early Stuarts: it was entirely owing to acquisitions by private persons, not all of them aristocrats. The Journal of the History of Collections, just over a decade old, has published varied research in this field: the late Sir Brinsley Ford and Denys Sutton were pioneers in exploring the Grand Tour period, which attracted big audiences to the 'Vases and Volcanoes' and 'Grand Tour' exhibitions in 1996 97. Now Jonathan ...
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