Charles Avery

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Il Bresciano: Bronze-Caster of Renaissance VeniceHardcover, 2 June 2020

Il Bresciano: Bronze-Caster of Renaissance Venice
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Print Length
224 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Philip Wilson Publishers
Date Published
2 Jun 2020
ISBN-10
1781301034
ISBN-13
9781781301036

Description

The first comprehensive study of an important Italian Renaissance bronze-caster by a leading authority.

A nucleus of sculptures cast by Andrea di Alessandri, commonly called from his native city, Il Bresciano, or from his products, Andrea dai bronzi, has been identified over the centuries. His style has been described as having similarities both with the High Renaissance of Sansovino and the Mannerism of Vittoria, the two successive master-sculptors of 16th-century Venice for whom he cast major bronzes. Andrea's signed masterpiece is a Paschal Candlestick in bronze, over two metres high and with sixty or more fascinating figures, made for Sansovino's magnificent lost church of Santo Spirito in 1568 and now in Santa Maria della Salute.

The author's identification in 1996 of a pair of magnificent Firedogs with sphinx feet (which in 1568 had been recommended to Prince Francesco de'Medici in Florence), and in 2015 of an elaborate figurative bronze Ewer in Verona, have been the culmination of the process of recognition. Archival research has at last revealed the span of Andrea's life as 1524/25-1573, as well as many significant facts about his family and patronage. So the time is ripe for this comprehensive, well-illustrated, book on Il Bresciano, a new and major bronzistà in the great tradition of north Italy.

Product Details

Author:
Charles Avery
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
2 June 2020
Dimensions:
27.69 x 21.08 x 2.29 cm
Genre:
Italy
ISBN-10:
1781301034
ISBN-13:
9781781301036
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
224
Weight:
1247.38 gm

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