Kinaesthesia and Classical Antiquity 1750–1820 by Helen Slaney

Author:Helen Slaney [Slaney, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

When travellers obtain permission to see the Vatican Museum by torch-light, they usually have four wax torches … placed within a reflector, fastened to a long pole; and the light, thus arranged, is most judiciously thrown on all the finest statues, so as to display and magnify their beauties, while their imperfections are left in shadow: and Laocoön, thus viewed, appears fine beyond conception.22

Alternatively, for visitors to the Pio-Clementino in daylight, a different method was employed to render an encounter with Apollo as much of an epiphany as possible. Anna Miller reports, ‘When the folding doors were thrown back of the nich which contains the Statue of Apollo, I started back in surprise.’23 Already in use during Miller’s visit in the mid-1770s, this mode of exhibition and was picked up again after the statues’ repatriation. Charlotte Eaton describes the climax of her Vatican tour in 1817:

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