Large bronzes in the Renaissance
By: edited by Peta Motture.
Contributors: Motture, Peta.; Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
Series: Studies in the history of art,; 64.; Symposium papers / Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts ;; 41; Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ;; 64.; Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.).; 41.
Publisher: National Gallery of Art; Distributed by Yale University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Washington [D.C.]; New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Bronze sculpture, Italian -- 16th century -- Congresses.; Bronze sculpture, Renaissance -- Italy -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Proceedings of the symposium "Large Bronzes in the Renaissance," sponsored by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation ... held 15-16 October 1999 in Washington [D.C.]"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Preface / -- Elizabeth Cropper -- Introduction / -- Peta Motture; title: Pre-Classical is Pre-Renaissance -- Carol C. Mattusch; title: Original settings of nonreligious bronzes in the Renaissance -- Mario Scalini; title: Still a problem of attribution : the tomb slab of Pope Martin V in San Giovanni in Laterano -- Joachim Poeschke; title: Benvenuto Cellini's satyrs for the Porte Dorée at Fontainebleau -- Joseph R. Bliss; title: Parisian casters in the sixteenth century -- Geneviev̀e Bresc-Bautier; title: Large bronzes in France during the sixteenth century -- Regina Seelig-Teuwen; title: Medici Mercury and the Breath of Bronze -- Michael Cole; title: Ludovico Lombardo and the taste for the all'Antica Bust in mid-sixteenth-century Florence and Rome -- Antonia Boström; title: Pair of angels in the Hermitage : an attribution to Carlo di Cesare del Palagio -- Sergej Androssov; title: Atrium of the four winds at Lainate : Aeolus and a companion rediscovered -- Charles Avery; title: Technical investigation of the Mellon Venus and Bacchus and a Faun -- Judy L. Ozone and Shelley G. Sturman; title: Pair of large bronze deities in Detroit : new research and an attribution to Danese Cattaneo -- Alan Phipps Darr; title: State and private bronze foundries in Cinquecento Venice : new light on the Alberghetti and di Conti workshops -- Victoria J. Avery; title: Production of firedogs in Renaissance Venice -- Peta Motture; title: Angel and the city : Baccio Bandinelli's project for the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome -- Irving Lavin.