{"id":511,"date":"2015-02-06T10:52:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T18:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/?p=511"},"modified":"2015-04-17T16:20:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T23:20:09","slug":"the-marble-index-roubiliac-and-sculptural-portraiture-in-eighteenth-century-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/the-marble-index-roubiliac-and-sculptural-portraiture-in-eighteenth-century-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marble Index: Roubiliac and Sculptural Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-346 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TheMarbleIndex1.jpg\" alt=\"TheMarbleIndex\" width=\"228\" height=\"275\" \/><span class=\"book-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yalepress.yale.edu\/yupbooks\/book.asp?isbn=9780300204346\" target=\"_blank\">The Marble Index: Roubiliac and Sculptural Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Britain<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><span class=\"book-publisher\">2015,\u00a0New Haven and London: Yale University Press<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"book-author\"><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" title=\"Malcolm Baker\" href=\"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/faculty\/malcolm-baker\/\">Malcolm Baker, author<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Providing the first thorough study of sculptural portraiture in 18th-century Britain, this important book challenges both the idea that portrait necessarily implies painting and the assumption that Enlightenment thought is manifest chiefly in French art.\u00a0 By considering the bust and the statue as genres, Malcolm Baker, a leading sculpture scholar, addresses the question of how these seemingly traditional images developed into ambitious forms of representation within a culture in which many core concepts of modernity were being formed.\u00a0 The leading sculptor at this time in Britain was Louis Francois Roubiliac (1702\u20131762), and his portraits of major figures of the day, including Alexander Pope, Isaac Newton, and George Frederic Handel, are examined here in detail.\u00a0 Remarkable for their technical virtuosity and visual power, these images show how sculpture was increasingly being made for close and attentive viewing.\u00a0 <i>The Marble Index<\/i> eloquently establishes that the heightened aesthetic ambition of the sculptural portrait was intimately linked with the way in which it could engage viewers familiar with Enlightenment notions of perception and selfhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marble Index: Roubiliac and Sculptural Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Britain 2015,\u00a0New Haven and London: Yale University Press Malcolm Baker, author <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/the-marble-index-roubiliac-and-sculptural-portraiture-in-eighteenth-century-britain\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,88],"tags":[61,17,64,63,62,65],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-books","category-malcolm-baker","tag-baker","tag-books","tag-britain","tag-culptural-portraiture","tag-roubiliac","tag-yale-university-press"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}