Lustrous Trade

Cinzia Sicca is associate professor of history of European art at the Univeristy of Pisa. Alison Yarrington is professor of history of art at the University of Leicester.

• Introduction    1: Re-casting George I: Sculpture, the Royal Image and the Market2: Camillo Rusconi in English Collections3: The Trade of Luxury Goods in Livorno and Florence in the Eighteenth Century4: Gentlemen of Virtue: Morality and Representation in English Eighteenth-century Tomb Sculpture5: Contacts and Contracts: Sir Henry Cheere and the Formation of a New Commercial Worl of Sculpture in Mid-Eighteenth Century London6: 'Sheep, shepherds, and wild beasts, cut artificially in stone': Production and Consumption of Garden Sculpture in Genoa at the End of the Seventeenth and during the Eighteenth Century7: Anglo-Italian Attitudes: Chantrey and Canova8: The Marble Trade: The Lazzerini Workshop and the Arts, Crafts and Entrenpreneurs of Carrara in the Early Nineteenth Century9: Carlo Marochetti: Maintaining Distinction in an International Sculpture Market10: Belzoni's Collecting and the Egyptian Taste11: Between Fine Art and Manufacture: The Beginnings of Italian Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture at the South Kensington Museum12: 'Enjoyment for the Thousands': Sculpture as Fine and Ornamental Art at South Kensington, 1852 - 62BibliographyIndex