Sculpture Workshops As Space and Concept - Creating the Portrait

This book explores the multifaceted aspects of sculptor's workshops from the Renaissance to the early nineteenth century.

List of contents

1. Introduction
Jane Fejfer and Kristine Bøggild Johannsen
2. The Absent Center: Donatello in the Workshop
Daniel Zolli
3. Ambiguous Narratives of Making. Some Questions about the Workshop Practices of Eighteenth-Century British Sculptors
Malcolm Baker
4. More than Gossip and less than Monuments. Forms of Ambition in the 1790s and early 1800s Roman Bust Head
Tomas Macotay
5. Master and Servant. Canova’s Workshop and the Formation of Sculptural Autonomy
Johannes Myssok
6. Likeness, Ideality, and Equality. On Thorvaldsen’s Portrait Busts and His Workshop Practice
Kira Kofoed
7. The Final Touch. On Thorvaldsen’s Marble Surfaces
Amalie Skovmøller
8. Female Patronages: The Unstable Beginnings of Christian Daniel Rauch as a Portrait Sculptor in Berlin, Rome and Carrara
Astrid Fendt

About the author

Jane Fejfer is Associate Professor at The Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen.
Kristine Bøggild Johannsen is Curator at the Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen.

Summary

This book explores the multifaceted aspects of sculptor’s workshops from the Renaissance to the early nineteenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Fejfer, Jane Johannsen Fejfer, Kristine Bøggild Johannsen
• Assisted by: Jane Fejfer (Editor), Fejfer Jane (Editor), Kristine Bøggild Johannsen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780367428051
• ISBN: 978-0-367-42805-1
• No. of pages: 190
• Series: Routledge Research in Art History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, The arts: general issues, ART / History / General, Social & cultural history, ART / Sculpture & Installation, sculpture, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Art, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Art styles not defined by date