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The Art of Renaissance Sculpture

Author: Peta Motture, Emma Jones and Dimitrios Zikos  

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The artistic production and cultural context of renaissance sculpture.

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.

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The artistic production and cultural context of renaissance sculpture.

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.

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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.

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About the Author

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 on Florentine and Flemish sculptors, and collaborates with the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence, where he has co-curated several exhibitions.

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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 two- day conference at the V&A in November 2010 as part of the Robert H. Smith Renaissance Sculpture Programme.

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Publisher
V & A Publishing
Published
3rd June 2013
Pages
285
ISBN
9781851776405

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