Pietro Bracci and Eighteenth-Century Rome
Subtitle: Drawings for Architecture and Sculpture in the Canadian Centre for Architecture and Other Collections
Contributors: Centre Canadien D'Architecture (Corporate Author)
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: November 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780271020082
Subjects: Drawing & drawings; History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; 17th-18th Century Architecture; Architecture; Art & Art Instruction; European; History - General; Techniques - Drawing; Design & Drafting; Sculpture; 1700-1773; 1737-1815; 18th century; Architectural Drawing; Bracci, Pietro,; Bracci, Virginio,; Catalogs; Italy; Rome
Description: "Pietro Bracci was a leading sculptor of eighteenth-century Rome, but the dispersal of his drawings has hampered study of the interplay between his approach to design and his response to Rome's vast artistic heritage. Using a group of Bracci drawings at the Canadian Centre for Architecture as their point d'appui, Elisabeth Kieven and John Pinto have prepared a long-overdue catalogue of Bracci's complete study collection, from preliminary sketches to finished presentation drawings.

Kieven and Pinto discuss the origin and function of each drawing and offer a wealth of new insights into Bracci's remarkable skill at integrating sculpture into Rome's grand buildings and public spaces." "Kieven and Pinto's book concludes with a catalogue raisonne of the entire corpus of drawings ascribed to Bracci and his son Virginio. In addition, their book illustrates all of Bracci's drawings and provides transcriptions of key documents."--BOOK JACKET.