Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Yale University Press / National Gallery of Art, New Haven, Conn, 2001
ISBN 10: 0300090420 ISBN 13: 9780300090420
Da: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Hardbound. Condizione: VG/VG. 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.