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Cellini and the Principles of Sculpture

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  • Date Published: October 2002
  • availability: Unavailable - out of print October 2017
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9780521813211

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  • Benvenuto Cellini is an incomparable source on the nature of art-making in sixteenth century Italy. A practicing artist who worked in gold, bronze, marble, and on paper, he was also the author of treatises, discourses, poems and letters about his own work and the works of contemporaries. Collectively, these works show Cellini to be an authority on the reigning ideas about the virtues and properties of artists' materials, and a vivid witness to the poetically charged processes of transforming these materials into meaningful forms. In this study, Michael Cole analyzes the media in which Cellini worked as well as his theoretical writings. Examining how Cellini and those around him viewed the act of sculpture in the late Renaissance, he situates Cellini's views in the context of the history of art, science, poetics, and ethics. Cole demonstrates Cellini's continuing relevance to the broader study of artistic theory and practice in his time.

    • Cellini's writings are the best primary source on Renaissance art and sculpture, this is the first booklength study on his writings in conjunction with his art
    • This is one of very few books about Cellini in English or more generally about Renaissance sculptors
    • Study of how practice of sculpture was understood in the Renaissance
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    'This book examines Cellini's art in a way which would have been appreciated in the Florentine High Renaissance, fusing the aspects of the artist as an intellectual and as an artificer and portraying him as one of the most influential and important artistic creators of his time.' Art Newspaper

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    • Date Published: October 2002
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9780521813211
    • length: 262 pages
    • dimensions: 259 x 179 x 22 mm
    • weight: 0.71kg
    • contains: 66 b/w illus. 8 colour illus.
    • availability: Unavailable - out of print October 2017
  • Table of Contents

    1. Salt, composition, and the goldsmith's intelligence
    2. Casting, blood and bronze
    3. The Ars Apollinea and the mastery of marble
    4. The design of virtue.

  • Author

    Michael W. Cole, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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