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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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Joseph de Levis applied his distinctive signature (between 1577 and
1605) to a whole range of fantastic, Mannerist, bronze artefacts,
some 45 in all. They range from large church-bells - some still in
situ - and miniature table-bells, to mortars, inkstands,
perfume-burners, door-knockers, firedogs, statuettes, and even a
portrait-bust. Joseph's sons and nephews continued the family
business into the seventeenth century, signing a similar range of
artefacts in an early Baroque style. This book provides a unique
cross-section of the production of a hard-working and resilient
renaissance foundry. Frequently inscriptions and coats-of-arms
specify his wide-ranging clientele, from civic and church
authorities, to guilds and confraternities (all-important in
society at the time), nobility, merchants and
connoisseur-collectors. Bronzes by the De Levis dynasty are now
dispersed among museums in Europe, the USA and Israel, and in Old
Master collections, notably that of the late Robert H. Smith, whose
foundation purchased in 2002 the eye-catching Ewer from the Salomon
de Rothschild Foundation in Paris for GBP276,000.This well
illustrated catalogue raisonne is important both art-historically
and from the perspective of the Jewish Diaspora in Renaissance
Italy.
This is a new release of the original 1949 edition.
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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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This comprehensive study of the sculptures of Gianlorenzo Bernini
(1598-1680) follows in twelve chapters his development as an artist
and the area in which he excelled: portraits, the likeness of which
astonished his contemporaries; the sculptures for St Peter in Rome;
his extraordinary fountains; the timeless beauty of his renderings
of mythological figures. German text. Die umfassende Monographie
ueber die Skulpturen Gianlorenzo Berninis (1598-1680) beleuchtet in
zwolf Kapiteln die Stationen seiner Entwicklung und die Gebiete, in
denen er brillierte: die Portrats, deren -sprechende- Ahnlichkeit
die Zeitgenossen verblueffte, die Werke fuer den Petersdom, die
grandiosen Brunnen und seine Heiligen und zeitlos schonen Gestalten
der antiken Mythologie. Den ausgefuehrten Werken
gegenuebergestellte Vorzeichnungen, Tonskizzen und Modelle erlauben
einen faszinierenden Einblick in den kuenstlerischen
Schaffensprozea.
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