Issued in conjunction with a 2016 exhibition of this sculptor rendered by Italian Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) and his father, Pietro ...
Continue Reading →Gian Lorenzo Bernini was the greatest sculptor of the Baroque period, and yet—surprisingly—there has never before been a major exhibition of his sculpture ...
Continue Reading →In sixteenth-century Venice, paintings were often treated as living beings. As this book shows, paintings attended dinner parties, healed the sick, made money, ...
Continue Reading →‘Sublime’ and ‘Milton’ – no other pairing is used more frequently in early discussions of the author of Paradise Lost: Addison finds Milton’s ...
Continue Reading →With the aid of over 180 photographs, this book studies what unites and separates sculptors across the centuries. It looks at the masters ...
Continue Reading →Throughout history and around the world, people have interacted with works of art as if they were living beings rather than static objects. ...
Continue Reading →John Shearman makes a plea for a more engaged reading of art works of the Italian Renaissance, one that will recognize the presuppositions ...
Continue Reading →This is the first comprehensive collection of texts on the conservation of art and architecture to be published in the English language. Designed ...
Continue Reading →Draws on contemporary biographies and a wealth of hitherto unpublished archival material to illuminate the position and practice of the Baroque sculptor, to ...
Continue Reading →Few art historians would dispute that Jennifer Montagu is one of the most distinguished scholars of Italian (mostly Roman) Baroque sculpture. Besides her ...
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