Автор: Erin Thompson
Название: Possession: The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present
Издательство: Yale University Press
Год: 2016
ISBN: 9780300208528
Язык: English
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 12,8 mb
Страниц: 232
Enlivened by fascinating personalities and scandalous events, Possession shows how collecting antiquities has been a way of creating identity, informed by a desire to annex the past while providing an illicit thrill along the way. Thompson's accounts of history's most infamous collectors—from the Roman Emperor Tiberius, who stole a life-sized nude Greek statue for his bedroom, to Queen Christina of Sweden, who habitually pilfered small antiquities from her fellow aristocrats, to Sir William Hamilton, who forced his mistress to enact poses from his collection of Greek vases—are as mesmerizing as they are revealing.
