Jeffrey Collins: "Staging Statues: The Challenge of the Group"

Jeffrey Collins, Professor, Bard Graduate Center, presents his lecture, "Gentlemen Prefer Bronze: Garden Sculpture and Sculpture Gardens in Eighteenth–Century England" on Saturday, May 20, 2017. This lecture is part of the symposium Sculpture Collecting and Display, 1600–2000 presented by the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection on Friday and Saturday, May 19–20, 2017. 

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Sculpture Collecting and Display, 1600–2000

Link to video of Ian Wardropper and Inge Reist, Opening Remarks
6:14

Welcome and Opening Remarks, Ian Wardropper and Inge Reist

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Link to video of Malcom Baker lecture
55:06

Malcolm Baker: "What Do We Mean by a 'Sculpture Collection'?"

Link to video of Jeremy Warren lecture
28:41

Jeremy Warren: "The Collecting of Small Bronze Sculptures in Renaissance Italy"

Link to video of Michael Yonan lecture
25:29

Michael Yonan: "Porcelain as Sculpture: Medium, Materiality, and the Categories of Eighteenth–Century Collecting"

Link to video of Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann lecture
35:28

Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann: "Messy History? Sculpture Collecting and the Kunstkammer"

Link to video of Inge Reist giving welcoming remarks for symposium
1:13

Welcome, Day Two, Inge Reist

Link to video of Betsy Rosasco lectrure
30:03

Betsy J. Rosasco: "Versailles, Marly, Dresden: Magnificence and Its Limits"

Link to video of Julius Bryant lecture
41:03

Julius Bryant: "Gentlemen Prefer Bronze: Garden Sculpture and Sculpture Gardens in Eighteenth–Century England"

Link to video of Anne-Lise Desmas lecture
32:05

Anne-Lise Desmas: "The Gallerie du S.r Girardon Sculpteur Ordinaire du Roy"

Link to video of Alison Yarrington lecture
36:17

Alison Yarrington: "Myth, Memory and Marble: The Country House Sculpture Gallery in the Post-Napoleonic Period"

Link to video of Andrew McClellan lecture
35:12

Andrew McClellan: "Viewing Sculpture in the Museum Age"

Link to video of Alan Darr lecture
33:54

Alan P. Darr: "The Legacy of William Valentiner in Shaping the Display of European Sculpture in American Museums, 1900–Present"

Link to video of James Fenton and Ian Wardropper converstation
1:10:34

James Fenton in conversation with Ian Wardropper