Sculpture collections in Europe and the United States 1500-1930 : variety and ambiguity / edited by Malcolm Baker, Inge Reist

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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Variety and Ambiguity: What Do We Mean by a "Sculpture Collection"? -- Part 1 Sculpture in the Kunstkammer: Contexts, Formation, and Dispersal -- Chapter 2 The Collecting of Small Bronze Sculptures in Late Renaissance Italy: The Canonici Collection -- Chapter 3 Shifting Perceptions and Changing Frameworks: The Case of Francis van Bossuit and the Place of Small-Scale Sculpture in Ivory in the Sculpture Collection -- Part 2 Garden Sculptures as Collections -- Chapter 4 Gentlemen Prefer Bronze: Garden Sculpture and Sculpture Gardens in Britain (1720-1860) -- Chapter 5 The Sculpture Gardens of Versailles, Marly, and Dresden: Magnificence and Its Limits -- Part 3 The Sculpture Gallery and Dedicated Spaces for Sculpture -- Chapter 6 The 'Gallerie du S.r Girardon Sculpteur Ordinaire du Roy' -- Chapter 7 Porcelain as Sculpture: Medium, Materiality, and the Categories of Eighteenth-Century Collecting -- Chapter 8 Art and Nature: The Country House Sculpture Gallery in the Post-Napoleonic Period -- Part 4 The Changing Place of Sculpturein the Public Museum -- Chapter 9 The Public Art Gallery as Arena for Modern Sculpture -- Chapter 10 Displaying Deceit: Alceo Dossena's Tomb of Maria Catharina Sabello at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston -- Chapter 11 The Legacy of William Valentiner in Shaping the Display and Collecting of European Sculpture in American Museums, 1900-Present: Case Studies -- Bibliography -- Index.