| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 444 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : Making and unmaking sculpture in fifteenth-century Italy / Amy R. Bloch and Daniel M. Zolli -- 1. The color white in fifteenth-century Tuscan sculpture / Una Roman D'Elia -- 2. The colors of monochrome sculpture / Frank Fehrenbach -- 3. New light on Luca della Robbia's glazes / Catherine Kupiec -- 4. Donatello, Alberti, and the freestanding statue in fifteenth-century Florence / Peter Jonathan Bell -- 5. Francesco di Valdambrino's wood sculpture at the high altar of Siena Cathedral / Ashley Elston -- 6. Sculptural transformations in quattrocento Italy / Megan Holmes -- 7. The body, space, and narrative in central and northern Italian sculpture : Donatello, Jacopo della Quercia, and Ghiberti in comparison / David J. Drogin -- 8. Rethinking style in fifteenth-century Italian sculpture : the curious case of Filarete / Robert Glass -- 9. Bellano's invention at the Santo / Sarah Blake McHam -- 10. Sculpture and sacrifice : Abraham and Isaac by Donatello and Nanni di Bartolo / Adrian Randolph -- 11. Illuminated sculpture and visionary experience at the Cardinal of Portugal Chapel in Florence / Morgan Ng -- 12. Tullio Lombardo, Antonio Rizzo, and sculptural audacity in Renaissance Venice / Lorenzo G. Buonanno -- 13. Stucco as substrate and surface in quattrocento Florence (and beyond) / Yvonne Elet -- 14. The punch marks on Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise : an intersection of economy and ritual / Lauren Jacobi -- 15. Relief effects in Donatello and Mantegna / Henrike Christiane Lange -- 16. Candelabra-columns and the Lombard architecture of sculptural assemblage / Michael J. Waters -- 17. Jacopo della Quercia's Fonte Gaia : water, history, and poetry / Amy R. Bloch -- 18. Virgil's forge : the afterlife of a sculptural legend in Aragonese Naples / Daniel M. Zolli -- 19. Quattrocento perspectives on the historical value of sculpture / Joost Keizer |
| Summary |
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.-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sculpture, Italian -- 15th century
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Art and society -- Italy -- History -- 15th century
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Art and society
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Sculpture, Italian
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Italy
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bloch, Amy R., 1975- editor.
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Zolli, Daniel M., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781108579322 |
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1108579329 |
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