Carvings, casts & collectors : the art of Renaissance sculpture / edited by Peta Motture, Emma Jones, and Dimitrios Zikos.
Alternate Title(s):
Carvings, casts and collectors
Published / Created:
London : Victoria & Albert, 2013.
Physical Description:
xiv, 285 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
This volume brings together new research by some of the world's leading experts, exploring the artistic production and cultural context of Renaissance sculpture from Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise to the small bronzes of Giambologna and his followers.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Collecting and collections -- The eye of a connoisseur: Robert H. Smith as a collector of Renaissance bronzes / Cyril Humphris -- Looking afresh: reviewing Italian Renaissance sculpture for the V&A's Medieval & Renaissance Galleries / Peta Motture -- Framing sculpture -- Around the Gates of Paradise: observations on the jambs of Ghiberti's bronze doors / Gary M. Radke -- Tabernacle and sacrament in fifteenth-century Tuscany / Alison Wright -- Portraiture -- Casting Renaissance Florence: the bust of Giovanni de' Medici and indexical portraiture / Jeanette Kohl -- Discovered in the stores: two female busts by Simone Bianco in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna / Claudia Kryza-Gersch -- Sculptors and their workshops -- The Del Maino altarpiece in the Victoria and Albert Museum in its original context / Davide Gasparotto -- The Grandi in the intellectual context of Renaissance Padua: new attributions / Jeremy Warren -- Northern Europe --
Subject Terms:
Sculpture, Renaissance.
Contributors:
Motture, Peta. | Jones, Emma. | Zikos, Dimitrios. | Victoria and Albert Museum.