Looking at Italian Renaissance sculpture / edited by Sarah Blake McHam

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Object Details

Author
McHam, Sarah Blake
Contents
The materials and techniques of Italian Renaissance sculpture / G.M. Helms -- The revival of antiquity in early Renaissance sculpture / H.W. Janson -- On the sources and meaning of the Renaissance portrait bust / Irving Lavin -- Familiar objects : sculptural types in the collections of the early Medici / John T. Paoletti -- Holy dolls : play and piety in Florence in the Quattrocento / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber -- The virtue of littleness : small-scale sculptures of the Italian Renaissance / Joy Kenseth -- Public sculpture in Renaissance Florence / Sarah Blake McHam -- Looking at Renaissance sculpture with Vasari / Paul Barolsky -- A week in the life of Michelangelo / William E. Wallace -- Michelangelo : sculpture, sex, and gender / James M. Saslow -- Gendered nature and its representation in sixteenth-century garden sculpture / Claudia Lazzaro
Summary
Looking at Italian Renaissance Sculpture offers new and original insights into the sculpture produced primarily in Florence, but in other regions as well, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Focusing on the achievements of such artists as Donatello and Michelangelo, this volume demonstrates how the methodologies of cultural anthropology, aesthetics, conservation, political theory, gender studies, and literary analysis, among others, can be successfully applied to the study of sculpture.
Among the themes explored in this collection of eleven essays are the relationship of sculpture to nature, as well as to the cultures of Greece and Rome; the role of patronage; the development of new forms, such as statuettes and portraiture; and the creation of public monuments as vehicles for propaganda. Also emphasized are the techniques of creating sculpture in a variety of media, including bronze, marble, wood, stucco, and terracotta.
1998
Type
Books
Physical description
xvi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Place
Italy
Smithsonian Libraries
Topic
Sculpture, Renaissance
Sculpture, Italian
Record ID
siris_sil_1074155
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0