European Sculpture, 1400-1900, in the Metropolitan Museum of ArtMetropolitan Museum of Art, 2011 - 292 pagine This beautiful book features masterpieces of sculpture in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum dating from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. Celebrated works by the great European sculptors - including Luca and Andrea della Robbia, Juan Mart©Ưnez Monta©ł©♭s, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Antoine-Louis Barye, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Edgar Degas, and Auguste Rodin- are joined by striking new additions to the collection, notably Franz Xaver Messerschmidt's remarkable bust of a troubled and introspective man. The ninety-two selected examples are diverse in media (marble, bronze, wood, terracotta, and ivory) and size - ranging from a tiny oil lamp fantastically conceived and decorated by the Renaissance bronze sculptor Riccio to Antonio Canova's eight-foot-high Perseus with the Head of Medusa, executed in the heroic Neoclassical style. Incorporating information from the latest scholarly research and recent conservation studies, sculpture specialist Ian Wardropper discusses the history and significance of the highlighted works, each of which is reproduced with glorious new photography. |
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European Sculpture, 1400-1900, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Ian Wardropper Anteprima non disponibile - 2011 |
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Adriaen de Vries ancient Andrea artist attributed Augustin Pajou Baroque Belisarius Bequest Bernini Bode Borghese bronze Canova Carpeaux carved cast Château church Clodion commission composition dated David Draper Decorative Arts Draper in Metropolitan Emperor European Sculpture example EXHIBITED Fifty Centuries figure Florence Francesco French Fund Gallery garden George Blumenthal Giambologna Gianlorenzo Gianlorenzo Bernini Gift Giovanni Guilhem Scherf hair head Hercules Hôtel Houdon Italian James David Draper Jean-Antoine Houdon Jean-Baptiste Koeppe LITERATURE London Madame de Pompadour Masterpieces of Fifty Medici Ménars Metropolitan Museum monument Musée du Louvre Museum of Art Napoléon Olga Raggio Orpheus painted Pajou Palazzo Paris pedestal Pietro Pietro Bernini plaster Pope-Hennessy portrait bust pose PROVENANCE Purchase Renaissance Riccio Rodin Rome Saint Saint Tarcisius Salon Satyr Scipione Borghese sculpture Sculpture and Decorative socle sold to MMA statue statuette style terracotta tomb vase Villa Vries Wardropper York