The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Amy R Bloch editor Daniel M Zolli editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:27th Feb '20
Should be back in stock very soon
Comprising nineteen essays by top scholars and a comprehensive introduction, this book surveys fifteenth-century Italian sculpture in all its variety.
Featuring essays by top scholars and an expansive introduction, this volume surveys fifteenth-century Italian sculpture. It offers the most comprehensive treatment of the topic to date, in its range of artists and media, and its geography: from great centers like Florence and Venice to lesser-studied cities like Milan and Naples.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.
'This volume offers much new research and abundant riches, including 250 illustrations, many of them color plates. Specialists will discover much of interest and value in this varied cornucopia. The pictures alone make this a visual banquet worth attending … Highly recommended.' W. E. Wallace, Choice
ISBN: 9781108428842
Dimensions: 287mm x 222mm x 28mm
Weight: 1870g
454 pages