Download or read book A catalogue of a collection of Italian marble sculpture including a fine bust of Diana by Noidon a large group of two Cupids struggeling for an apple the Magadalen reposing on a rock a beautiful whole length figure after Canova several small groups of highly interesting subjects by Rigaud Fran ois Marin Laru c a marble vase of the Cinque Cento period a bust of Clio six elegant Italian marble chimney pieces bronze groups etc 1849 written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Magnificence of Marble written by Riccardo Naldi and published by Hirmer Verlag GmbH. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of the most important Spanish sculptors of the sixteenth century and their work in Naples can be found here together in an opulent art book. During the period between 1513 and 1518, Bartolome Ordonez and Diego de Siloe from Burgos in Castile made the southern Italian city blossom into one of the most important European centres of marble sculpture. Ordonez and de Siloe were influenced in their art by the work of Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael, and continued to develop their own style: poetical and expressive, it was modelled on the Italian Renaissance mixed with borrowings from Antiquity, but without giving up the Naturalism typical of the Iberian peninsula. As masters of a variety of techniques they found in Naples that the unique marble from Carrara provided a fertile environment for their creative work. Their activities here provided the decisive impetus for the continued development of artistic taste towards the High Renaissance and laid the foundation stone for the Neapolitan School with its main representatives Girolamo Santacroce and Giovanni da Nola. "
Download or read book The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth Century Italy written by Amy R. Bloch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Italian Renaissance sculpture written by Gallerie Baratti and published by Edizioni Polistampa. This book was released on 2013 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the catalog of the exhibition held in Florence on the occasion of the Biennale International Fair of Antiquariato (2013, 28 th edition). It contains 18 masterpieces of fifteenth and sixteenth-century Italian sculpture belonging to Baratti Galleries' collections (Milan). The works are different for materials (marble, stone, terracotta, wood, bronze) and area of origin, including sculptures by Donatello, Vincenzo Danti, Andrea Riccio and Filarete. "For those who perceive the evolution of artistic taste," as Gianluca Gentilini explains in the introductory text, "and are used to historical and artistic studies, as well as to exhibitions deriving from them, it is by now obvious that the critical engagement of new generations is especially characterized by a passionate, fruitful rediscovery of sculpture, with very significant outcomes in the knowledge, protection and enhancement of our heritage, that influence the dynamics of public and private international collectors".
Download or read book Michelangelo written by Carmen C. Bambach and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2017-11-05 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consummate painter, draftsman, sculptor, and architect, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) was celebrated for his disegno, a term that embraces both drawing and conceptual design, which was considered in the Renaissance to be the foundation of all artistic disciplines. To his contemporary Giorgio Vasari, Michelangelo was “the divine draftsman and designer” whose work embodied the unity of the arts. Beautifully illustrated with more than 350 drawings, paintings, sculptures, and architectural views, this book establishes the centrality of disegno to Michelangelo’s work. Carmen C. Bambach presents a comprehensive and engaging narrative of the artist’s long career in Florence and Rome, beginning with his training under the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio and the sculptor Bertoldo and ending with his seventeen-year appointment as chief architect of Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. The chapters relate Michelangelo’s compositional drawings, sketches, life studies, and full-scale cartoons to his major commissions—such as the ceiling frescoes and the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel, the church of San Lorenzo and its New Sacristy (Medici Chapel) in Florence, and Saint Peter’s—offering fresh insights into his creative process. Also explored are Michelangelo’s influential role as a master and teacher of disegno, his literary and spiritual interests, and the virtuoso drawings he made as gifts for intimate friends, such as the nobleman Tommaso de’ Cavalieri and Vittoria Colonna, the marchesa of Pescara. Complementing Bambach’s text are thematic essays by leading authorities on the art of Michelangelo. Meticulously researched, compellingly argued, and richly illustrated, this book is a major contribution to our understanding of this timeless artist.
Download or read book Historical Handbook of Italian Sculpture written by Charles Callahan Perkins and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supports in Roman Marble Sculpture written by Anna Anguissola and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figural and non-figural supports are a ubiquitous feature of Roman marble sculpture; they appear in sculptures ranging in size from miniature to colossal and of all levels of quality. At odds with modern ideas about beauty, completeness, and visual congruence, these elements, especially non-figural struts, have been dismissed by scholars as mere safeguards for production and transport. However, close examination of these features reveals the tastes and expectations of those who commissioned, bought, and displayed marble sculptures throughout the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Drawing on a large body of examples, Greek and Latin literary sources, and modern theories of visual culture, this study constitutes the first comprehensive investigation of non-figural supports in Roman sculpture. The book overturns previous conceptions of Roman visual values and traditions and challenges our understanding of the Roman reception of Greek art.
Download or read book Staglieno written by Walter S. Arnold and published by . This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overflowing with breathtaking artwork, Camposanto di Staglieno in Genoa is one of Italy's greatest hidden sculptural treasures. Visit this outdoor museum and revel in the wonders bequeathed to us by many of Europe's finest marble carvers and sculptors. World-renowned sculptor and stone carver Walter S. Arnold acts as a personal guide through this monumental cemetery as he shares his insight into some of the secrets locked in these marble sculptures. In addition, Mr. Arnold explains the processes and the roles of the artisans that transformed massive blocks of stone into some of the world's most intricate and dramatic memorials. The photographic images contained within this book distill and represent the artistry, craftsmanship and history of cemetery sculpture and all things Italian.
Download or read book Parlor and Art Statuary written by Italian Marble Co and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oil and Marble written by Stephanie Storey and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself. The two despise each other."--Front jacket flap.
Download or read book The Evolution of Italian Sculpture written by David Lindsay Earl of Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Italian Sculpture of the Middle Ages and Period of the Revival of Art written by South Kensington Museum and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Looking at Italian Renaissance Sculpture written by Sarah Blake McHam and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at Italian Renaissance Sculpture offers provocative insights into Italian Renaissance sculpture.
Download or read book American Neo classic Sculpture written by William H. Gerdts and published by Penguin Putnam. This book was released on 1973 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Michelangelo written by Michelangelo and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1994 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Michelangelo left Florence for Rome in 1534, the Medici tombs were unfinished, but there was no question of another sculptor being brought in to complete them. They were already icons of artistic perfection, which it would be sacrilege for anyone else to touch. That eminence they retain to this day. The two seated Medici Dukes and the reclining figures of Night, Day, Dawn and Dusk are among the most famous sculptures in the world, endlessly copied and universally recognisable.
Download or read book Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages written by George Edmund Street and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Torlonia Marbles written by Salvatore Settis and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sublime volume about one of the most important collections of ancient marble sculptures in the world, an astonishing private trove largely hidden to scholars and the public until now. Last published in a nineteenth-century catalog, the distinguished Torlonia Collection of more than 600 priceless Greek and Roman works--marbles and bronzes, reliefs and sarcophagi, depictions of gods, and portraits of emperors--is one of the most important assemblages of classical sculptures still in private hands anywhere in the world. This eagerly awaited volume presents a selection of nearly 100 sculptures, which have been chosen for their quality and historic significance and which will be featured in an unprecedented exhibition designed by David Chipperfield and held in the Villa Caffarelli, near the Musei Capitolini in Rome, before touring globally. The legendary aura surrounding this, Rome's last princely collection, is due not only to its extraordinary scope and the high quality of the works, but also to the fact that the collection has not been available to the public for decades. This revelatory book features multiple essays by leading experts on the history of the collection and scholarly entries for the works detailing important discoveries made through archaeological research as well as the cleaning and conservation of the sculptures.
