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12. Art in the Dark: Viewing and Exhibiting Sculpture at Somerset House
Alison Yarrington
Description: Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780–1836
Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780–1836
ALAS, POOR SCULPTURE! Relegated to the nether regions of the Royal Academy exhibitions, sculpture suffered greatly by comparison with the sister art of painting, whose virtual monopoly of the Great Room also ensured that...
Author
Alison Yarrington
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Copyright© 2001 by The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and The Courtauld Institute Gallery
Related print edition pages: pp.173-187
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00023.018
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18345
Chapter subject tags:Art, British--Exhibitions--18th centurySculpture, British--18th centuryRoyal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)Flaxman, John, 1755-1826Sculpture, British--19th centuryCanova, Antonio, 1757-1822

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12. Art in the Dark: Viewing and Exhibiting Sculpture at Somerset House