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From the Golden Age to Goya. This is the first study wholly devoted
to reception of Spanish art in Britain and Ireland. Examining the
extent and sources of knowledge of Spanish art in the British Isles
during an age of increasing contact, particularly in theaftermath
of the Peninsular War, it contains contributions by leading
scholars, including reprints of three essays by Enriqueta Harris
Frankfort, to whose memory this book is dedicated. Focusing on
Spanish art from the Golden Age to Goya, these studies chart the
growth in understanding and appreciation of the Spanish School, and
its punctuation by controversies and continuing distrust of
religious images in Protestant Britain, as well as by the
successive `discoveries' of individual artists - Murillo,
Velazquez, Ribera, Zurbaran, El Greco and Goya. The book publishes
important new research on art importation, collecting and dealing,
and discusses the increase in access to andscholarship on works of
art, including their reproduction through both traditional prints
and copies and the newly invented photographic methods. It also
considers for the first time the role of women in reflecting taste
for thearts of Spain. It is richly illustrated with 17 colour and
54 black and white illustrations. NIGEL GLENDINNING is Emeritus
Professor of Spanish and Fellow of Queen Mary University of London.
HILARY MACARTNEY isHonorary Research Fellow of the Institute for
Art History, University of Glasgow. Contributors: NIGEL
GLENDINNING, HILARY MACARTNEY, JEREMY ROE, SARAH SYMMONS, MARJORIE
TRUSTED, ENRIQUETA HARRIS FRANKFORT
First opened in 1873, the Victoria and Albert Museum's Cast Courts
were purpose built to house copies of architecture and sculpture
from around the world. They contain some of the Museum's largest
objects, including casts of Trajan's Column (shown in two halves)
and the twelfth century Portico de la Gloria from the cathedral at
Santiago de Compostela. Among the Museum's most popular galleries,
the Cast Courts are an extraordinary expression of Victorian taste,
ambition and public spirit. Published to celebrate the opening of
the refurbished Cast Courts at the V&A, this book presents a
fresh perspective on the Museum's diverse collection of
reproductions including plaster casts, electrotypes and
photographs.
Over 500 baroque and later ivories from the V&A's outstanding
collection are illustrated and discussed in this scholarly
catalogue. This publication includes every ivory sculpture made
after 1550 from a collection comprising German, Austrian,
Netherlandish, British, French, Italian, Scandinavian, Russian and
Spanish pieces, as well as examples from the Philippines, Goa, Sri
Lanka and South America. The range of objects is extensive:
statuettes, reliefs, tankards, boxes, cabinets, snuff rasps and
cutlery handles are all represented. These small-scale sculptures
might render dramatic scenes from mythology, present exquisitely
carved portrait likenesses on a small scale, or depict religious
narratives. The high quality of the V&A's holdings is readily
apparent; leading ivory sculptors to be found here include Francis
van Bossuit, Benjamin Cheverton, Balthasar Griessmann, Joachim
Henne, Johann Christoph Ludwig Lucke, David Le Marchand and
Balthasar Permoser. In addition to detailed entries on each piece,
the Introduction summarises the history and techniques of baroque
and later ivory carving, while indexes of subjects and artists, in
addition to a comprehensive bibliography, provide a full scholarly
apparatus.
The Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace is a national
icon, yet few have heard of its sculptor, Thomas Brock. He left
school at 12 to be an apprentice at the Worcester Royal Porcelain
Works, then joined the London studio of John Henry Foley. He
completed the figure of the Prince Consort for the Albert Memorial
after Foley's death. One of the young sculptors encouraged by Sir
Frederic Leighton, he became famous for his lifelike portrait
statues of Queen Victoria, Edward VII, Gladstone, Millais and other
public figures. Chosen in 1901 as sole sculptor of the Victoria
Memorial, he was knighted by King George V at its unveiling in
1911. Brock's remarkable story is told by his son Frederick in this
entertaining biography, written in the 1920s and now published by
permission of the Victoria and Albert Museum. "A highly readable
and intriguing perspective on a sculptor's life in the late 19th
and early 20th century, one which reveals as much about the art
world of his time as about the individual whose life forms its
subject. ... John Sankey has worked extensively on Brock and his
edition of these memoirs is exemplary." Dr Marjorie Trusted (Senior
Curator of Sculpture, Victoria & Albert Museum) 'An
astonishingly thorough record of the life of a sculptor who, a
hundred years back, distilled from European traditions an idiom
which now seems to be the appropriate - indeed almost the only
imaginable - backdrop to royal ceremonial. ... In bringing this
record to a wider readership, John Sankey reveals some of the less
well-known facets of Brock's extensive sculptural oeuvre,
disseminated around the globe from Copenhagen to Wellington (NZ)'
Philip Ward-Jackson (formerly Conway Librarian, Courtauld Institute
of Art)
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