Between 1760-1800, British aristocrats became preoccupied with the acquisition of Ancient Greek and Roman artifacts. This book examines these objects and their

The recovery and reinvention of the past were fundamental to the conception of the modern in England during the long eighteenth century. Scholars then forged co

The Danish neoclassical sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844), who lived most of his life in Rome, was not only one of Europe’s most soughtafter artists;

Despite William Hunter's stature as one of the most important collectors and men of science of the eighteenth century, and the fact that his collection is the f

New Approaches to Ancient Material Culture in the Greek & Roman World is about Classical Archaeology at its broadest and is important reading to all Classicists