Bertoldo di Giovanni : the renaissance of sculpture in Medici Florence /

Bertoldo di Giovanni : the renaissance of sculpture in Medici Florence /

Renaissance sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni (ca. 1440-1491) was a student of Donatello, a teacher of Michelangelo, and a favourite of Lorenzo de' Medici "il Magnifico," his principal patron. Bertoldo was one of the first sculptors to create statuettes in bronze. With an overview of the...

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Author / Creator: Ng, Aimee (Author)
Other Authors / Creators:Noelle, Alexander J., author.
Salomon, Xavier F., 1979- author.
Bell, Peter Jonathan, writer of supplementary textual content.
Böninger, Lorenz, writer of supplementary textual content.
Caglioti, Francesco, writer of supplementary textual content.
Casciu, Stefano, writer of supplementary textual content.
Ciseri, Ilaria, writer of supplementary textual content.
Cordua, Maria Grazia, writer of supplementary textual content.
Day, Julia, writer of supplementary textual content.
Draper, James David, writer of supplementary textual content.
Elam, Caroline, 1945- writer of supplementary textual content.
Nethersole, Scott, writer of supplementary textual content.
Rowley, Neville, writer of supplementary textual content.
Stiberc, Peter, writer of supplementary textual content.
Bertoldo, di Giovanni, approximately 1420-1491. Sculptures. Selections.
Other Corporate Authors / Creators:Frick Collection, issuing body, host institution.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: New York : The Frick Collection, in association with D Giles Limited, London, 2019.
Subjects:
Bertoldo, > di Giovanni, > approximately 1420-1491 > Exhibitions.
Medici, Lorenzo de', > 1449-1492 > Art patronage > Exhibitions.
Medici, Lorenzo de', > 1449-1492.
Bertoldo, > di Giovanni, > approximately 1420-1491.
15th century
Sculpture, Italian > Italy > Florence > 15th century > Exhibitions.
Sculpture, Renaissance > Italy > Florence > Exhibitions.
Sculpture, Renaissance.
Sculpture, Italian.
Art patronage.
Italy > Florence.
Exhibition catalogs.
Table of Contents:
  • Director's foreword
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Conversation with James David Draper
  • Reframing Bertoldo and his legacy / Alexander J. Noelle
  • The bronze statuette in fifteenth-century Florence and Bertoldo di Giovanni / Peter Jonathan Bell
  • Bertoldo's place between Donatello and Michelangelo / Francesco Caglioti
  • "Custode" and "capo": Bertoldo di Giovanni in Lorenzo de Medici's sculpture garden / Caroline Elam
  • Wilhelm von Bode and the rediscovery of Bertoldo di Giovanni / Neville Rowley
  • The indefinite identities of Bertoldo di Giovanni's Shield Bearers / Alexander J. Noelle
  • Battling for meaning: Bertoldo's bronze relief in the Bargello / Scott Nethersole
  • Bertoldo di Giovanni, "excellent maker of medals": some observations / Xavier F. Salomon
  • Bertoldo beyond bronze: his works in other media and questions of authorship / Aimee Ng
  • Bertoldo, a carver in bronze / Julia Day
  • St. Jerome in the Pinacoteca comunale in Faenza: a carved and modeled sculpture / Peter Stiberc
  • The glazed terracotta frieze of the Villa Medici at Poggio a Caiano: technique, execution, conservation, and restoration / Stefano Casciu and Maria Grazia Cordua
  • Housing problems of a Renaissance artist / Lorenz Böninger
  • In the rooms of the princes and the Grand-Ducal Gallery: the bronzes of Bertoldo before the Bargello / Ilaria Ciseri
  • Catalogue
  • Appendix: The life and artwork of Bertoldo di Giovanni in archival documents / Lorenz Böninger and Alexander J. Noelle
  • Bibliography
  • About the authors
  • Index
  • Image credits.

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