Playing with Fire
Subtitle: European Terracotta Models, 1740 to 1840
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: January 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780300101904
Subjects: Exhibition catalogues and specific collections; Neo-classicism; Sculpture; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Europe; Ceramics; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum; European; Art / History / European; General; 18th century; 19th century; Exhibitions; Terra cotta sculpture, Europea; Terra cotta sculpture, European
First sentence: The mythic accounts of sculpture's origins give immense importance to the modeling of clay, the first act of creation: "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."