Instauratio and Pietas: the della Valle collections of ancient sculpture

Christian, Kathleen Wren (2008). Instauratio and Pietas: the della Valle collections of ancient sculpture. In: Penny, Nicholas and Schmidt, Eike D. eds. Collecting Sculpture in Early Modern Europe. Studies in the History of Art (70). Washintgton: National Gallery of Art, pp. 33–65.

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Abstract

Discusses the history of the Della Valle collection of antique sculpture in fifteenth and sixteenth century Rome, with particular attention to the rhetoric behind the 'hanging garden' of antique sculpture formed by Cardinal Andrea della Valle in the aftermath of the Sack of Rome.

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