Author: Charles AveryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Renaissance & Baroque Bronzes in the Frick Art Museum
Author: Charles AveryRenaissance & Baroque Bronzes in the Frick Art Museum
Author: Frick Art Museum (Pittsburgh, Pa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bronzes, Baroque
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Denise AllenPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588397106
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
he revival of the bronze statuette popular in classical antiquity stands out as an enduring achievement of the Italian Renaissance. These small sculptures attest to early modern artists' technical prowess, ingenuity, and desire to emulate—or even surpass—the ancients. From the studioli, or private studies, of humanist scholars in fifteenth-century Padua to the Fifth Avenue apartments of Gilded Age collectors, viewers have delighted in the mysteries of these objects: how they were made, what they depicted, who made them, and when. This catalogue is the first systematic study of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's European Sculpture and Decorative Arts collection of Italian bronzes. The collection includes statuettes of single mythological or religious figures, complex figural groups, portrait busts, reliefs, utilitarian objects like lamps and inkwells, and more. Stunning new photography of celebrated masterpieces by leading artists such as Antico, Riccio, and Giambologna; enigmatic bronzes that continue to perplex; quotidian objects; later casts; replicas; and even forgeries show the importance of each work in this complex field. International scholars provide in-depth discussions of 200 objects included in this volume, revealing new attributions and dating for many bronzes. An Appendix presents some 100 more complete with provenance and references. An essay by Jeffrey Fraiman provides further insight into Italian bronze statuettes in America with a focus on the history of The Met's collection, and Richard E. Stone, who pioneered the technical study of bronzes, contributes an indispensable text on how artists created these works and what their process conveys about the object's maker. A personal reminiscence by James David Draper, who oversaw the Italian sculpture collection for decades, rounds out this landmark catalogue that synthesizes decades of research on these beloved and complex works of art.
Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Hill Collection
Author: Patricia WengrafPublisher:
ISBN: 9781907372636
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Hills' taste centers on the Florentine bronze, but their interests range to superb examples from northern Italy and Rome, as well as those from France and northern Europe. Giambologna, the great Flemish sculptor practicing in Florence in the late sixteenth century, is revered for the subtlety of his compositions and for his technical ability. He is well represented in the Hill collection through works from his own hand and those cast after his models by his assistant - and master in his own right - Antonio Susini."--"Director's foreword", p 8.
Renaissance & Baroque Bronzes
Author: Laura CaminsArt of the Renaissance Bronze, 1500-1650
Author: Anthony RadcliffePublisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Details with photographs and explanations of each piece found in the private collection of Robert H. Smith renaissance bronzes.
Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Author: Victoria AveryPublisher: Gli Ori
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In the introductory essay to the catalogue of bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum 'Dr. Avery provides the first detailed account of Boscawen himself, of the loans and gifts he made to the Museum during his lifetime and his sister's extraordinarily generous bequest.' (Foreword)
Renaissance Bronzes in American Collections
Author: Smith College. Museum of ArtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bronzes
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Alexis Gregory Collection
Author: Charles AveryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bronzes
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Joseph de Levis and Company
Author: Charles AveryPublisher:
ISBN: 9781781300480
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Joseph [also known as Giuseppe] de Levis applied his distinctive signature (be- tween 1577 and 1605) to a whole range of fantastic, Mannerist, bronze artefacts, some 45 in all. They range from large church-bells – some still in situ – and miniature table-bells, to mortars, inkstands, perfume-burners, door-knockers, firedogs, statuettes, and even a portrait-bust. Joseph’s sons and nephews continued the family business into the seventeenth century, signing a similar range of artefacts in an early Baroque style, including two rare mortars that are cast with Hebrew letters and ornament, as well as other intriguing Judaica. Round this core of guaranteed work a corpus of reasonable attributions may be made on stylistic and circumstantial grounds, giving a total of some 140 items. This provides a unique cross-section of the production of a hard-working and resilient renaissance foundry. Frequently inscriptions and coats-of-arms specify Joseph’s wide-ranging clientèle, from civic and church authorities, to guilds and confraternities (all-important in society at the time), nobility, merchants and connoisseur-collectors. Bronzes by the De Levis dynasty are now dispersed among museums in Europe, the USA and Israel, and in Old Master collections, notably that of the late Robert H. Smith, whose foundation purchased in 2002 the eye-catching Ewer from the Salomon de Rothschild Foundation in Paris for £276,000. This well illustrated catalogue raisonné is therefore important both art-historic- ally and from the perspective of the Jewish Diaspora in Renaissance Italy.