Thomas Howard and his marbles – the first great English art collector
The talk was
given by Liz Rideal and she talked well about the people around Howard but
actually said very little about him himself. He had come up on the course I did
last year on classicism as he created one of the greatest collections of
classical sculpture in England which later become the classical core of the
Ashmolean Museum. I would like to have heard more about how he amassed the
works and how they were displayed in his life time.
I was interested
to hear more about Wenceslas Hollar the etcher whose work I keep coming across.
I love the idea that his work was so detailed as he was short sighted. I
understand that idea! He is buried at St Margaret's Westminster where I sing a few times a year.
She also covered
Van Dyck, Inigo Jones, Rubens and the Duke of Buckingham. Maybe a bit too much
for a 45 minute lecture.
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