The outstanding collection of European bronze scupltures formed by
Peter Marino, which focuses especially on French and Italian
bronzes of the High Baroque, includes masterpieces by some of the
greatest sculptors of their age, among them Ferdinando Tacca,
Giovanni Battista Foggini, Robert le Lorrain, and Corneille van
Clève. This volume of the contributions to the symposium held in
June 2010 testifying to the importance of the Marino Collection
includes ten essays by distinguished scholars of sculpture. Charles
Avery, author of major monographs on Giambologna and Bernini,
discusses the impetus behind one of the most exciting models in the
Marino Collection, a Hercules and Antaeus, after Maderno.
Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, Director of the Louvre Sculpture
Department, examines the discovery of a large number of small
pieces of terracotta sculpture, thought to be from the workshop of
Andrés-Charles Boulle, which was destroyed in 1720. Anthea Brook,
who has published extensively on Ferdinando Tacca, considers the
attribution of a pair of small Florentine bronze hunting groups in
the Marino Collection, making the case for Damiano Cappelli - a
bronze-casting specialist in the workshop of Tacca - to be
considered as a scupltor capable of creating his own designs.
Rosario Coppel investigates the impressive collection of small
bronzes of the 3rd Duke of Alcalá(1583-1637), who was Philip IV's
extraordinary ambassador to Pope Urban VIII and later Viceroy and
Captain General in Naples. Phillippe Malgouyres, Curator of
Bronzes, Ivories, and Metals at the Louvre, discusses the bronze
casts after Bernini sculpture, a little-studied subject in the wide
field of Bernini studies. Jeffiner Montagu, Senior Fellow of the
Warburg Institute, attempts to put together and define the oeuvre
of the unknown sculptor of the magnificent 15-figure group of
bronze hunters, their hounds and a bull, in the Suermondt Ludwig
Museum in Aachen. Independent scholar Regina Seelig Teuwen extoles
Guillaume Berthelot as a sculptor of small bronzes, while Jeremy
Warren, Collections and Academic Director at the Wallace
Collection, discusses the challenges of cataloguing the Peter
Marino Collection for the 2010 exhibition. Dimitros Zikos of the
Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence presents the extraordinary
collection of bronzes and terracottas of Giuseppe and Ferdinando
Borri. Eike Schmidt, James Ford Bell Curator of Decorative Arts and
Sculpture at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, discusses the
adaption of two-dimensional models in Giovanni Battista Foggini's
bronze sculpture.
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