Some eighteenth-century "restored" boxers

Author

Howard, Seymour

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 1993, Vol. 56, 238-255, [9] p. of pl., 36 ill.

ISSN

0075-4390

Abstract (en)

A series of antiquities restored as Boxers at the outset of the modern era demonstrates how restorations mirror a symptomatic reflection of contemporary taste and understanding for the history of art and archaeology. The subject and its imagery, variously sustained and resurrected in the classicisms of antiquity and of Renaissance Italy, were intensely explored during the golden age of English boxing, when the sport became identified with a self-enhancing and egalitarian national ethos.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800
• Antiquarianism
• 1700-1800
• Restoration
• Sculpture
• Ancient [art]
• Boxing
• Iconography
• Art history
• Taste (aesthetics)

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800
• Antiquarianisme
• 1700-1800
• Restauration
• Sculpture
• Antique (art)
• Boxe
• Iconographie
• Histoire de l'art
• Goût (esthétique)

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19950101-00309412

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