Small Bronzes of the Renaissance

Pincus, Debra (editor)

ISBN 10: 0300090420 / ISBN 13: 9780300090420

Editore: Yale University Press / National Gallery of Art, New Haven, Conn, 2001

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Dark green cloth with cream, color-pictorial dustjacket. 280 pp., profusely illustrated, mostly in bw. A research on small-scale bronze production of the Renaissance from the 15th through the early 17th century in Italy and the North. It reexamines the controbution of Donatello and his immediate followers in the first stages of bronze production. Contents as follows: The Winged woman holding a torch: a Donatellesque bronze from Quattrocento Tuscany /; Alison Luchs --; Rehabilitating a fallen athlete: evidence for a date of 1453/1454 in the Veneto for the Bust of a Platonic youth by Donatello /; Douglas Lewis --; A new interpretation of the casting of Donatello's Judith and Holofernes /; Richard E. Stone --; Verrocchio and the bronze statuette /; Andrew Butterfield --; "The; faun who plays on the pipes": a new attribution to Desiderio da Firenze /; Jeremy Warren --; An allegorical bronze statuette newly attributed to Ammanati /; Ian Wardropper --; A group of Giambologna female nudes: analysis and manufacture /; Shelley Sturman --; Original ideas and their reproduction in Venetian foundries: Tiziano Aspetti's Mars in the Frick collection; a case study /; Claudia Kryza-Gersch --; The sculpture of Adriaen de Vries: a technical study /; Francesca G. Bewer --; Small bronzes by Hubert Gerhard: a review of recent scholarship /; Dorothea Diemer --; Some eighteenth-century frameworks for the Renaissance bronze: historiography, authorship, and production /; Malcolm Baker --; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as a collector of bronzes /; Volker Krahn --; Leo Planiscig and Percy Straus, 1929-1939: collecting and historiography /; Carolyn C. Wilson.

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Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Small Bronzes of the Renaissance
• Editore: Yale University Press / National Gallery of Art, New Haven, Conn
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0300090420
• ISBN 13: 9780300090420
• Rilegatura: Hardbound
• Condizione: VG/VG
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • General Art - European
  • European Art

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Riassunto

This far-ranging book presents the most recent research on small-scale bronze production of the Renaissance. The contributors to the volume--an international group of curators, art historians, and conservators--analyze the production and collecting of small bronze sculptures from the fifteenth through the early seventeenth century in both Italy and the North. They offer new assessments and attributions of these fascinating works of art, the result of an intense collaboration between artists and collectors.

The book sheds light on the origins of the ?household” bronze in Florence around the middle of the fifteenth century and on the groundbreaking developments in North Italy that followed. It reexamines the contribution of Donatello and his immediate followers in the first stages of bronze production as well as proposing a number of new attributions. Among the book’s other topics are casting procedures, including a proposal for a method used by Donatello; the spread of technological and artistic advances from Italy into the Northern countries; the work and workshop practices of sculptors of North Italy; and the assembling of personalized collections of small bronzes by German, English, and American connoisseurs from the eighteenth century to our own.

Informazioni sull?autore

Debra Pincus is an independent scholar living and working in Washington, D.C.