A catalogue for one of the great courts in the 1854 Crystal Palace at Sydenham. The authors provide a synoptic history of the Italian Renaissance and its main i

Vitrines and glass cabinets are familiar apparatuses that have in large part defined modern modes of display and visibility, both within and beyond the museum.

The marble halls of the British Museum might seem the natural habitat for classical sculpture, but in the nineteenth century its sombre displays were far from b