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Beschreibung:

304 S. Mit zahlr. farb. Abb. Originalhardcover mit Schutzumschlag.

Bemerkung:

Umschlag leicht beschädigt, sonst gutes Exemplar. - No art form represents the Renaissance with greater eloquence than the bronze statuette. The fashion for small bronzes, often of mythological subjects, probably started in Padua, among the humanists of the University, as a deliberate re-creation of classical art modeled on the exampeles.of classical sculpture which were being increasingly excavated from the middle of the fifteenth century onward. It was essentially an intimate form, conceived in small scale yet splendid proportions, vigorously wrought and encouraging close examination. These were pieces to be lived with, often designed to instruct, but primarily intended to give pleasure in the best humanist tradition. The collection of statuettes in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is among the chief glories of one of the greatest museums in the world. Many of these unique and fascinating works of art have never left the Museum, nor the Imperial collections which preceded it, since their acquisition, which was sometimes direct from the artists themselves. This catalog organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, D.C., presents a selection of 75 superb bronzes. The selection includes many of the most famous examples: Antico's Venus felix, Riccio's Boy with a goose, Moderno s Flagellation, Vittoria's Allegory of winter and Giambolognas Mercury, to name but a few. There are introductory essays by Douglas Lewis and Donald McClelland, a short list of books in English for the general reader, and, at the end of the catalog, a comprehensive bibliography for scholarly reference. ISBN 0935748695