The Sculpture of Greater India

Kate Flint points to “the development of the visualisation of experience” that continues through the nineteenth century; linking this experience to the “more permanent display of material” in museums and the “growing number of art exhibitions” (3). This development of a “visualisation of experience” is crucial for understanding the reception of classical antiquity during this period. The Greek court at the Crystal Palace in Sydenham, along with the other Fine Arts Courts, is a good example of the desire to make the vision of antiquity corporeal and create an arena through which the past could be physically experienced and...