Studies in Italian Sculpture

Avery Charles

ISBN 10: 1899828311 / ISBN 13: 9781899828319

Editore: Pindar Press, London, 2001

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Studies in Italian Sculpture. Avery, Charles. Description du livre: London, 1999. 438pp. 341 ills.Dr. Avery has worked on Italian sculpture since he joined the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1966. His study continued during his career as Director of Christie's sculpture department (1979-1990) and since then as an independent consultant and historian. He has published extensively in this field, including his survey, Florentine Renaissance Sculpture (1970); Giambologna: the complete sculpture (1987); Donatello: an Introduction (1994); and Bernini, Genius of Baroque Rome (1997). A number of articles on Italian sculpture have been included in two successive volumes entitled Studies in European Sculpture (1981 and 1987). The present volume comprises further articles written over the decade since 1986, some on specific discoveries and others consisting of broader surveys of individual sculptors' activity or under-studied classes of Renaisance sculpture: bronze artefacts, such as seals and locks; and garden sculpture. Several are unpublished texts of lectures, or radical expansions of briefly published pieces Language : english text Size: 240 x 170 mm. Codice articolo 004329

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Titolo: Studies in Italian Sculpture

Casa editrice: Pindar Press, London

Data di pubblicazione: 2001

Legatura: Couverture rigide

Condizione: As New

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Edizione: Edition originale.

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This volume contains papers written in the years following 1986 which discuss both specific examples of sculpture, such as Donatello's Madonna, or broader surveys of a particular sculptor or style. Both stone and bronze sculptures are studied, including garden sculpture and other metal artefacts, for example seals and locks.

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Book by Avery Charles