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Carvings, Casts and Collectors
Peta Motture (Ed.)
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Hardcover. 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. Editor(s): Motture, Peta; Jones, Emma; Zikos, Dimitrios. Num Pages: 384 pages, 170 colour. BIC Classification: ACND; AFKB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 218 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1730.
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. The essays cover a range of sculptural materials and forms to cast fresh light on the artists, their creative and collaborative processes, and those who commissioned, owned and responded to their work. The papers were originally presented at a conference at the V&A in 2010 as part of the Robert H. Smith Renaissance Sculpture Programme.
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. The essays cover a range of sculptural materials and forms to cast fresh light on the artists, their creative and collaborative processes, and those who commissioned, owned and responded to their work. The papers were originally presented at a conference at the V&A in 2010 as part of the Robert H. Smith Renaissance Sculpture Programme.
Product Details
Publisher
V & A Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
1706g
Number of Pages
285
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851776405
SKU
V9781851776405
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About Peta Motture (Ed.)
Peta Motture is Senior Curator of Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She has published widely on medieval and later sculpture and co-curated several exhibitions. Emma Jones is a Ph.D candidate at Cambridge University, whose research focuses on the commissioning of sculpture and workshop practice in sixteenth-century Venice. Dimitrios Zikos is an independent art historian. He has published extensively ... Read more
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