Designs on eighteenth-century sculpture

Representation, Replication and Collecting in Charles Townley's Late Eighteenth‐century Library

“…The provision of drawings once a sculpture had been restored was a standard part of the paper transactions between the seller and a would-be purchaser. 44 What is striking is Jenkins's classification of the faun by its style of sculpture as 'true Greek': the 'Good or High times' being a Winckelmannian critique as codified by the papal antiquarian in his Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (History of the Art of Antiquity, Dresden, 1764). 45 The good or high period was one of Winckelmann's two distinct styles representing the apogee of the ancient art of sculpture in Greece in the fifth century BCE, the other being the beautiful style.…”