Based on an international conference held on the occasion of the opening of the new sculpture galleries in the NGA, Washington, DC in 2003. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Carving out lives : the role of sculptors in the early history of the Accademia di San Luca / Peter M. Lukehart -- Instauratio and Pietas : the della Valle collections of ancient sculpture / Kathleen Wren Christian -- Fifteenth-century reliefs of ancient emperors and empresses in Florence : production and collecting / Francesco Caglioti -- Silver shrine of Saint Simeon in Zadar : collecting ancient coins and casts after the antique of fifteenth-century Dalmatia / Stanko Kokole -- Collectors of Renaissance reliefs : Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) and Baron Boissel de Monville (1763-1832) / Douglas Lewis -- Pied destal ou soubsbassement : displaying sculpture in Renaissance France / Ian Wardropper -- Cardinal Ferdinando, Maria Maddalena of Austria, and the early history of ivory sculptures at the Medici court / Eike D. Schmidt -- Carving out lives : the role of sculptors in the early history of the Accademia di San Luca / Peter M. Lukehart -- For Pembroke statues, dirty gods and coins : the collecting, display, and uses of sculpture at Wilton House / Malcolm Baker -- Sculpture in Spanish collections from Philip II to Philip IV / Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio -- Artists as collectors of sculpture in baroque Rome / Jennifer Montagu -- Larson workshop : reproducing sculpture in seventeenth-century Holland / Frits Scholten -- Two French royal sculpture gardens : the Orangerie of Versailles and the Jardin Haut of Marly / Betsy Rosasco -- Marble hunting party : the Companions of Diana for Marly / Alison Luchs -- Pope Clement XI's Museo di Modelli in the Vatican Palace / Olga Raggio -- Visions of sculpture : some French eighteenth-century sculptures seen by draftsmen and painters / Guilhem Scherf -- For Pembroke statues, dirty gods and coins : the collecting, display, and uses of sculpture at Wilton House / Malcolm Baker -- Evolution of the plinth, pedestal, and socle / Nicholas Penny. Bronzes in two eighteenth-century Viennese collections / Manfred Leithe-Jasper -- Evolution of the plinth, pedestal, and socle / Nicholas Penny.
Series:
Studies in the history of art, 0091-7338 ; 70 Centre for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. Symposium papers XLVII
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