Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Michael Rysbrack’s Sculpture Series for Queen Caroline’s Library at St James’s Palace
- Ist Teil von
- Burning Bright, 2015, p.27
- Ort / Verlag
- UCL Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2015
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- In January 1738 Michael Rysbrack (1693–1770) received a letter from Isaac Ware, Secretary to the Board of Works, requesting that he should return to the Office of Works a series of portrait busts, still incomplete, which had been commissioned by Queen Caroline of Ansbach. The sculptor was informed that he would be paid in full for the project.¹ Caroline of Ansbach’s commission to Rysbrack was substantial. Had it come to fruition, it would have constituted his longest series of associated portrait busts. It would also have been the largest royal commission for sculpture in the first half of the
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9781910634189, 1910634182Titel-ID: cdi_jstor_books_j_ctt1g69z6q_6
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Anthropology, Applied anthropology, Applied arts, Architecture, Art genres and movements, Art history, Art pottery, Arts, Behavioral sciences, Buildings, Busts, Cognitive processes, Cognitive psychology, Cultural anthropology, Cultural institutions, Decorative arts, Dwellings, Earthenware, Environmental social sciences, Environmental studies, Gardens, Government, Government officials, Heads of state, Human societies, Information science, Inspiration, Landscape architecture, Libraries, Library collections, Library science, Monarchs, Palaces, Plastic arts, Political science, Portraits, Pottery, Princes, Psychology, Queens, Residential buildings, Royalty, Sculpture, Sculpture in the round, Social classes, Social stratification, Social structures, Sociology, Statues, Terracotta, Thought processes, Upper class, Visual arts