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Zusatztext 'Recommended. Upper-level under-graduates and above; general readers.' Choice 'The essays are often insightful and all beautifully illustrated (sculpture is best viewed in black and white reproductions)! and the collection is a valuable reference for all scholars of this early modern period.' Renaissance Quarterly Informationen zum Autor Kathleen Wren Christian is an Assistant Professor in History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh! USA. David J. Drogin is an Assistant Professor in the History of Art Department at the State University of New York! F.I.T.! USA. Klappentext Addresses the creative and intellectual roles of sculptor and patron. This title surveys artistic production from the Trecento to the Cinquecento in Rome! Pisa! Florence! Bologna! and Venice. It questions the traditional concept of authorship in Italian Renaissance sculpture. Zusammenfassung The first book to be dedicated to the topic, Patronage and Italian Renaissance Sculpture reappraises the traditional roles of sculptor and patron. The volume sets each work of art into a socio-historical context-the relationship between artists, patrons, and viewers are reframed to shed new light on the collaborations that shaped the art of Renaissance sculpture in Italy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Foreword; Introduction: the virtues of the medium: the patronage of sculpture in Renaissance Italy! Kathleen Wren Christian and David J. Drogin; 'There are many sculptors but to Giovanni remain the honors of praise': the rhetoric of Giovanni Pisano's words and images! Francis Ames-Lewis; Professors and princes: patronage of sculpture in the Capella Bentivoglio! Bologna! David J. Drogin; The humanist and the poet: Bernardo Bembo's portrait of Dante! Debra Pincus; Partnerships in commemoration: the patronage and production of the Brusati and Barbo tombs in quattrocento Rome! Shelley E. Zuraw; Donatello and his patrons! David G. Wilkins; Reversing the rules: Michelangelo and the patronage of sculpture! William E. Wallace; Passim: sculptors and sculptural patronage in and beyond Florence in the 15th century! Roger J. Crum; Giambologna's equestrian monument to Cosimo I: the monument makes the memory! Sarah Blake McHam; Pirro Ligorio's Roman fountains and the concept of the antique: investigations of the ancient nymphaeum in cinquecento antiquarian culture! Robert W. Gaston; Selected works cited; Index. ...
