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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 February 2020
      27 February 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108579322
      9781108428842
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108579322
      Dimensions:
      (279 x 216 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.87kg, 454 Pages
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      Art, Western Art
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    Fifteenth-century Italy witnessed sweeping innovations in the art of sculpture. Sculptors rediscovered new types of images from classical antiquity and invented new ones, devised novel ways to finish surfaces, and pushed the limits of their materials to new expressive extremes. The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy surveys the sculptural production created by a range of artists throughout the peninsula. It offers a comprehensive overview of Italian sculpture during a century of intense creativity and development. Here, nineteen historians of Quattrocento Italian sculpture chart the many competing forces that led makers, patrons, and viewers to invest sculpture with such heightened importance in this time and place. Methodologically wide-ranging, the essays, specially commissioned for this volume, explore the vast range of techniques and media (stone, metal, wood, terracotta, and stucco) used to fashion works of sculpture. They also examine how viewers encountered those objects, discuss varying approaches to narrative, and ponder the increasing contemporary interest in the relationship between sculpture and history.

    Awards

    Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award - Art History and Criticism, Association of American Publishers

    Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2021, Choice Reviews

    Reviews

    ‘This volume offers much new research and abundant riches, including 250 illustrations, many of them color plates. Specialists will discover much of interest and value in this varied cornucopia. The pictures alone make this a visual banquet worth attending … Highly recommended.’

    W. E. Wallace Source: Choice

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