Apostles of Good Taste? The use and perception of plaster casts in the Enlightenment
In his ‘Treatise on the Capacity for Sensitivity to the Beautiful in Art …’ Winckelmann compares the feeling of the beautiful in art with liquid plaster poured over the head of the Apollo. While this reference to plaster as a material is unusual, his view of casts as propagators of good taste was wi...
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
2021-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Art Historiography |
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| Online Access: | https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/marchand.pdf |