The Allure Of Glazed Terracotta In Renaissance Italy

Author : Zuzanna Sarnecka
Publisher : Harvey Miller
ISBN 13 : 9781912554782
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Allure of Glazed Terracotta in Renaissance Italy written by Zuzanna Sarnecka and published by Harvey Miller. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of glazed terracotta sculpture in Renaissance Italy, from c. 1450 to the mid-1530s. In its brightness and intense colour glazed terracotta strongly attracted the viewer's gaze. Its pure and radiant surfaces also had the power to raise the mind and soul of the faithful to contemplation of the divine. The quasi-magical process of firing earthenware coated with tin-based paste, promoted initially by imports from the East, was seized upon by Luca della Robbia, who realised that glazed terracotta was the ideal vehicle for the numinous. He began to create sculptures in the medium in the 1430s, and continued to produce them for the rest of his life. After Luca's death, his nephew, Andrea della Robbia, inherited his workshop in Florence and continued to develop the medium, together with his sons. The book considers some of the large-scale altarpieces created by the Della Robbia family in parallel with a number of small-scale figures in glazed terracotta, mostly made by unidentified sculptors. The captivating illustrations integrate these two categories of glazed terracotta sculpture into the history of Italian Renaissance art. By focusing on a specific artistic medium which stimulated piety in both ecclesiastical and domestic contexts, this book offers new ways of thinking about the religious art of the Italian Renaissance. The links it establishes between lay devotion and the creation of religious images in glazed terracotta invite reassessment of habitual distinctions between private and public art.

Author : Zuzanna Sarnecka
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000903990
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Materiality of Terracotta Sculpture in Early Modern Europe written by Zuzanna Sarnecka and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through meticulously researched case studies, this book explores the materiality of terracotta sculpture in early modern Europe. Chapters present a broad geographical perspective showcasing examples of modelling, firing, painting, and gilding of clay in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands. The volume considers known artworks by celebrated artists, such as Luca della Robbia, Andrea del Verrocchio, Filipe Hodart, or Hans Reichle, in parallel with several lesser-studied terracotta sculptures and tin-glazed earthenware made by anonymous artisans. This book challenges arbitrary distinctions into the fine art and the applied arts, that obscured the image of artistic production in the early modern world. The centrality of clay in the creative processes of artists working with two- and three-dimensional artefacts comes to the fore. The role of terracotta figures in religious practices, as well as processes of material substitutions or mimesis, confirm the medium’s significance for European visual and material culture in general. This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance studies, and material culture.

Author : Rachel Elizabeth Boyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
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Download or read book Invention, Collaboration, and Authorship in the Renaissance Workshop written by Rachel Elizabeth Boyd and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instead of attempting to discern each sculptor's individual contribution to joint projects, my study considers the nature of these partnerships, together with early modern conceptions of authorship. The conclusion draws attention to the longstanding legacy of glazed terracotta sculpture across Europe and outlines possibilities for future research. By locating the history of glazed terracotta within a broader narrative of Renaissance sculpture, one defined not by biographies but rather by technologies, this dissertation aims to highlight the coexistence and reciprocity of the exceptional and the everyday, of processes of invention and repetition, and of the individual artist and the workshop.

Author : National Terra Cotta Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terra Cotta of the Italian Renaissance written by National Terra Cotta Society and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce Boucher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300094558
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earth and Fire written by Bruce Boucher and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marjolijn Bol
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004515410
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Matter of Mimesis written by Marjolijn Bol and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Matter of Mimesis offers a rich and interdisciplinary perspective on how and why we use materials to copy, from the human body to the entire cosmos, from prehistory to the present day.

Author : Arthur Frederick Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258921347
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terra Cotta of the Italian Renaissance written by Arthur Frederick Adams and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.

Author : National Terra Cotta Society
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781258147976
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terra Cotta of the Italian Renaissance written by National Terra Cotta Society and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anon
Publisher : Davidson Press
ISBN 13 : 9781447427223
Total Pages : 210 pages
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Download or read book Terra Cotta of the Italian Renaissance written by Anon and published by Davidson Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Tim Shephard
Publisher : Harvey Miller
ISBN 13 : 9781912554027
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy, 1420-1540 written by Tim Shephard and published by Harvey Miller. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first detailed survey of the representation of music in the art of Renaissance Italy, opening up new vistas within the social and culture history of Italian music and art in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.