Author: Marietta Cambareri
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
ISBN: 9780878468416
Category : Polychromy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The glazed terracotta technique invented by Luca della Robbia, along with his exceptional skill as a sculptor, placed him firmly in the first rank of Renaissance artists in the fifteenth century. This quintessentially Florentine art - taking the form of dazzling multicoloured ornaments for major buildings, delicately modelled and ingeniously constructed freestanding statues, serene blue-and-white devotional reliefs, charming portraits of children, and commanding busts of rulers, along with decorative and liturgical objects - flowed in abundance from the Della Robbia workshops for a hundred years. Developed further by each generation, the closely held technique achieved new heights of refinement and durability in modelling and colour, combining elements of painting and sculpture into a new and all but eternal medium. In the 19th century, revived interest in the Renaissance and in the Della Robbia brought their works into major collections beyond Italy, particularly in England and the United States. Recently, renewed attention from art historians, backed by sophisticated technical studies, has reintegrated the Della Robbia into the mainstream of Renaissance art history and illuminated their originality and accomplishments. This beautifully illustrated book invites readers to experience one of the great inventions of the Renaissance and the enduring beauty it captured.
Della Robbia
Author: Marietta Cambareri
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
ISBN: 9780878468416
Category : Polychromy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The glazed terracotta technique invented by Luca della Robbia, along with his exceptional skill as a sculptor, placed him firmly in the first rank of Renaissance artists in the fifteenth century. This quintessentially Florentine art - taking the form of dazzling multicoloured ornaments for major buildings, delicately modelled and ingeniously constructed freestanding statues, serene blue-and-white devotional reliefs, charming portraits of children, and commanding busts of rulers, along with decorative and liturgical objects - flowed in abundance from the Della Robbia workshops for a hundred years. Developed further by each generation, the closely held technique achieved new heights of refinement and durability in modelling and colour, combining elements of painting and sculpture into a new and all but eternal medium. In the 19th century, revived interest in the Renaissance and in the Della Robbia brought their works into major collections beyond Italy, particularly in England and the United States. Recently, renewed attention from art historians, backed by sophisticated technical studies, has reintegrated the Della Robbia into the mainstream of Renaissance art history and illuminated their originality and accomplishments. This beautifully illustrated book invites readers to experience one of the great inventions of the Renaissance and the enduring beauty it captured.
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
ISBN: 9780878468416
Category : Polychromy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The glazed terracotta technique invented by Luca della Robbia, along with his exceptional skill as a sculptor, placed him firmly in the first rank of Renaissance artists in the fifteenth century. This quintessentially Florentine art - taking the form of dazzling multicoloured ornaments for major buildings, delicately modelled and ingeniously constructed freestanding statues, serene blue-and-white devotional reliefs, charming portraits of children, and commanding busts of rulers, along with decorative and liturgical objects - flowed in abundance from the Della Robbia workshops for a hundred years. Developed further by each generation, the closely held technique achieved new heights of refinement and durability in modelling and colour, combining elements of painting and sculpture into a new and all but eternal medium. In the 19th century, revived interest in the Renaissance and in the Della Robbia brought their works into major collections beyond Italy, particularly in England and the United States. Recently, renewed attention from art historians, backed by sophisticated technical studies, has reintegrated the Della Robbia into the mainstream of Renaissance art history and illuminated their originality and accomplishments. This beautifully illustrated book invites readers to experience one of the great inventions of the Renaissance and the enduring beauty it captured.
Luca Della Robbia
Author: Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : it
Pages : 358
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : it
Pages : 358
Book Description
Make a Joyful Noise
Author: Gary M. Radke
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300209181
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
"This book breaks the silence that has artificially surrounded one of the greatest masterpieces of Early Renaissance Florence: Luca della Robbia's Cantoria. This silence has never regarded the quality or historical significance of Luca's famed organ loft--far from it, in fact. Since its installation in Florence Cathedral in 1438, Luca's Cantoria--his first documented work--has been recognized as an undisputed masterpiece, epitomizing the classical spirit of the Renaissance"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300209181
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
"This book breaks the silence that has artificially surrounded one of the greatest masterpieces of Early Renaissance Florence: Luca della Robbia's Cantoria. This silence has never regarded the quality or historical significance of Luca's famed organ loft--far from it, in fact. Since its installation in Florence Cathedral in 1438, Luca's Cantoria--his first documented work--has been recognized as an undisputed masterpiece, epitomizing the classical spirit of the Renaissance"--
Sculpture in the Age of Donatello
Author: Timothy Verdon
Publisher: Giles
ISBN: 9781907804564
Category : ARCHITECTURE
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A major survey on both the art and decoration of Sta. Maria del Fiore in Florence, and early Renaissance art.
Publisher: Giles
ISBN: 9781907804564
Category : ARCHITECTURE
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A major survey on both the art and decoration of Sta. Maria del Fiore in Florence, and early Renaissance art.
The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Author: Amy R. Bloch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108428842
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Fifteenth-century Italy witnessed sweeping innovations in the art of sculpture. Sculptors rediscovered new types of images from classical antiquity and invented new ones, devised novel ways to finish surfaces, and pushed the limits of their materials to new expressive extremes. The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy surveys the sculptural production created by a range of artists throughout the peninsula. It offers a comprehensive overview of Italian sculpture during a century of intense creativity and development. Here, nineteen historians of Quattrocento Italian sculpture chart the many competing forces that led makers, patrons, and viewers to invest sculpture with such heightened importance in this time and place. Methodologically wide-ranging, the essays, specially commissioned for this volume, explore the vast range of techniques and media (stone, metal, wood, terracotta, and stucco) used to fashion works of sculpture. They also examine how viewers encountered those objects, discuss varying approaches to narrative, and ponder the increasing contemporary interest in the relationship between sculpture and history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108428842
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Fifteenth-century Italy witnessed sweeping innovations in the art of sculpture. Sculptors rediscovered new types of images from classical antiquity and invented new ones, devised novel ways to finish surfaces, and pushed the limits of their materials to new expressive extremes. The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy surveys the sculptural production created by a range of artists throughout the peninsula. It offers a comprehensive overview of Italian sculpture during a century of intense creativity and development. Here, nineteen historians of Quattrocento Italian sculpture chart the many competing forces that led makers, patrons, and viewers to invest sculpture with such heightened importance in this time and place. Methodologically wide-ranging, the essays, specially commissioned for this volume, explore the vast range of techniques and media (stone, metal, wood, terracotta, and stucco) used to fashion works of sculpture. They also examine how viewers encountered those objects, discuss varying approaches to narrative, and ponder the increasing contemporary interest in the relationship between sculpture and history.
The Della Robbia Pottery
Author: Peter Hyland
Publisher: ACC Distribution
ISBN: 9781851497348
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A full history of the Della Robbia Pottery with illustrations of many of the fine pieces of pottery which were made there.
Publisher: ACC Distribution
ISBN: 9781851497348
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A full history of the Della Robbia Pottery with illustrations of many of the fine pieces of pottery which were made there.
Practice and Theory in the Italian Renaissance Workshop
Author: Christina Neilson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107172853
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Verrocchio worked in an extraordinarily wide array of media and used unusual practices of making to express ideas.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107172853
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Verrocchio worked in an extraordinarily wide array of media and used unusual practices of making to express ideas.
From Filippo Lippi to Piero Della Francesca
Author: Pinacoteca di Brera
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588391434
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
In doing so, it examines the art of Florence in the 1440s and the work of, among others, Fra Filippo Lippi, Domenico Veneziano, Luca della Robbia, and Michelozzo."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588391434
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
In doing so, it examines the art of Florence in the 1440s and the work of, among others, Fra Filippo Lippi, Domenico Veneziano, Luca della Robbia, and Michelozzo."--BOOK JACKET.
The Renaissance
Author: Walter Pater
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts, Renaissance
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts, Renaissance
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
European Sculpture, 1400-1900, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394271
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This beautiful book features masterpieces of sculpture in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum dating from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. Celebrated works by the great European sculptors - including Luca and Andrea della Robbia, Juan Mart©Ưnez Monta©ł©♭s, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Antoine-Louis Barye, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Edgar Degas, and Auguste Rodin- are joined by striking new additions to the collection, notably Franz Xaver Messerschmidt's remarkable bust of a troubled and introspective man. The ninety-two selected examples are diverse in media (marble, bronze, wood, terracotta, and ivory) and size - ranging from a tiny oil lamp fantastically conceived and decorated by the Renaissance bronze sculptor Riccio to Antonio Canova's eight-foot-high Perseus with the Head of Medusa, executed in the heroic Neoclassical style. Incorporating information from the latest scholarly research and recent conservation studies, sculpture specialist Ian Wardropper discusses the history and significance of the highlighted works, each of which is reproduced with glorious new photography.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394271
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This beautiful book features masterpieces of sculpture in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum dating from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. Celebrated works by the great European sculptors - including Luca and Andrea della Robbia, Juan Mart©Ưnez Monta©ł©♭s, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Antoine-Louis Barye, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Edgar Degas, and Auguste Rodin- are joined by striking new additions to the collection, notably Franz Xaver Messerschmidt's remarkable bust of a troubled and introspective man. The ninety-two selected examples are diverse in media (marble, bronze, wood, terracotta, and ivory) and size - ranging from a tiny oil lamp fantastically conceived and decorated by the Renaissance bronze sculptor Riccio to Antonio Canova's eight-foot-high Perseus with the Head of Medusa, executed in the heroic Neoclassical style. Incorporating information from the latest scholarly research and recent conservation studies, sculpture specialist Ian Wardropper discusses the history and significance of the highlighted works, each of which is reproduced with glorious new photography.