Lustrous Trade

Cinzia Sicca is associate professor of history of European art at the Univeristy of Pisa. Alison Yarrington is professor of history of art at the University of Leicester.

• Introduction, Cinzia Sicca and Alison Yarrington; recasting George I - sculpture, the royal image and the market, Barbara Arciszweska; Camillo Rusconi in English collections, Frank Martin; the trade of luxury goods in Livorno and Florence in the 18th century, Elena Lazzarini; gentlemen of virtue - morality and representation in English 18th century tomb sculpture, Christiano Giometti; contacts and contracts - Sir Henry Cheere and the formation of a new commercial world of sculpture in mid-18th century London, Matthew Craske; "the ornaments of building" - the use of sculpture in English neo-Palladian architecture, Cinzia Sicca; sheep, shepherds and wild beasts cut artificially in stone - production and consumption of garden sculpture in 18th century Genoa, Lauro Magnani; Anglo-Italian attitudes - Chantrey and Canova, Alison Yarrington; the marble trade - the Lazzerini workshop and the arts, crafts and entrepreneurs of Carrara in the early 19th century, Luisa Passegia; Carlo Marochetti - maintaining distinction in an international sculpture market, Phillip Ward Jackson; Belzoni's collecting and the Egyptian taste, Susan M.Pearce; between fine art and manufacture - the beginnings of Italian Mediaeval and Renaissance sculpture at the South Kensington Museum, Donata Levi; "enjoyment for the thousands" -sculpture as fine and ornamental art at South Kensington, Christopher Whitehead.