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The marble index : Roubiliac and sculptural portraiture in eighteenth-century Britain / Malcolm Baker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baker, Malcolm, 1945- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roubiliac, Louis François, 1702-1762.
- Portrait sculpture, British--18th century.
- Portrait sculpture, British.
- Roubiliac, Louis François, 1702-1762--Criticism and interpretation.
- Roubiliac, Louis François.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 418 pages ; 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- Introduction: addressing the sculptural portrait
- The place of sculptural portraiture
- Sculptural conventions and meaning
- Setting up the head and the statue
- Making images
- A portrait sculptor, his sitters and his viewers: Roubiliac and his career
- Celebrating the illustrious
- Groups, networks and connections
- Contemporary heads.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300204346
- 0300204345
- OCLC:
- 862400529
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