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This richly illustrated and beautifully produced scholarly
catalogue of the superlative collection of Renaissance and Baroque
bronze figurative statuettes from the Hill collection accompanies
an exhibition of the collection at the Frick Collection, New York,
opening late January 2014. Spanning from 1470 to 1740, the bronzes
presented are of exceptional quality and exemplify the development
of bronze statuettes from 1470 in Renaissance Italy to their
dissemination across the artistic centres of Europe. The Hill
Collection is distinguished by rare, autograph masterpieces by
Italian sculptors such as Andrea Riccio and Giambologna, and has
the most important collection of Baroque Bronzes by Giuseppe
Piamontini in the world. Its holding of works by the Giambologna
school is the strongest found in any single collection, with the
sole exception of the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence. These
evoke the splendour of the late Renaissance courts, while the
richness of the international BAroque is represented by religious
themes by Alessandro Algardi, northern bronzes by Adriaen de Vries
and Hubert Gerhard, and a remarkable assemblage of French 16th- and
early 17th-century bronzes in the classical mode by Barthélemny
Prieur and from the circle of Ponce Jacquiot. The Hill Collection
reveals the range of artistry, invention and technical refinement
characteristic of sculptures created when the tradition of the
European statuette was at its height. The catalogue includes
detailed biographies of each of the artists represented, and is
introduced with essays by the distinguished authors. Patricia
Wengraf is one of the world's leading dealers in bronzes, scuplture
and works of art, and in her particular speciality, bronzes of the
15th-18th centuries, her knowledge and connoisseurship are of world
repute. Denise Allen is Curator of Renaissance Paintings and
Sculpture at the Frick Collection. Claudia Kryza-Gersch, formerly
at the Kunstkammer, Vienna, is an independent scholar renowned for
her studies of North Italian bronzes of the 16th and 17th
centuries. Dimitrios Zikos, in Florence, an independent scholar
renowned for his knowledge of the Florentine archives from c. 1550
to 1740, has curate many exhibitions at the Museo Nazionale del
Bargello, Florence. Rupert Harris is the leading conservator of
metalwork and sculpture in the UK.
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