Monuments devoted to artists in public spaces around museums: A nineteenth-century strategy to enhance the urban space of art districts
Monuments to kings or military heroes have always been positioned in main squares and avenues, whilst those erected to famous cultural figures were a novelty introduced in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, placing busts or sitting monuments to writers or musicians in secluded gardens and in the sur...
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International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art (RIHA)
2014-12-01
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| Online Access: | http://www.riha-journal.org/articles/2014/2014-oct-dec/lorente-monuments |