The Arts

Circulating agency

“…We can be confident such 'Celtic' material had an impact on high art, 123 although scholars have tended to overlook the impact on carvers and sculptors. 124 It may not always be obvious if the source was an image in a book rather than the object or a copy of it in a museum, but John Duncan specifically acknowledges the value of the Dundee casts in 1911. 125 To be fair, the Parthenon Marbleslet alone their many copies -failed to make the impact anticipated in 1816, partly because art students were more familiar with working with Graeco-Roman sculpture.…”