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Il Bresciano - Bronze-caster of Renaissance Venice (Hardcover)
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Il Bresciano - Bronze-caster of Renaissance Venice (Hardcover)
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A nucleus of sculptures cast by Andrea di Alessandri, commonly
called from his native city, 'Il Bresciano', or from his products,
'Andrea dai bronzi', has been identified over the centuries. His
style has been described as having similarities both with the High
Renaissance of Sansovino and the Mannerism of Vittoria, the two
successive master sculptors of sixteenth-century Venice, though he
cast major bronzes for both. Andrea's signed masterpiece is a
Paschal Candlestick in bronze, over two metres high and with sixty
or more fascinating figures, made for Sansovino's magnificent lost
church of Santo Spirito in 1568 and now in Santa Maria della
Salute. The author's identification in 1996 of a pair of
magnificent Firedogs with sphinx feet (which in 1568 had been
recommended to Prince Francesco de'Medici in Florence), and in 2015
of an elaborate figurative bronze Ewer in Verona, have been the
culmination of the process of recognition. Archival research has at
last revealed the span of Andrea's life as 1524/25-1573, as well as
many significant facts about his family and patronage. So the time
is ripe for a comprehensive, well-illustrated, book on Il
Bresciano, a 'new' and major bronzista in the great tradition of
north Italy.
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