The collection includes statuettes of single mythological or religious figures, complex figural groups, portrait busts, reliefs, utilitarian objects like lamps and inkwells, and more. This catalogue is the first systematic study of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's European Sculpture and Decorative Arts collection of Italian bronzes. From the studioli, or private studies, of humanist scholars in fifteenth-century Padua to the Fifth Avenue apartments of Gilded Age collectors, viewers have delighted in the mysteries of these objects: how they were made, what they depicted, who made them, and when. These small sculptures attest to early modern artists' technical prowess, ingenuity, and desire to emulate-or even surpass-the ancients. He revival of the bronze statuette popular in classical antiquity stands out as an enduring achievement of the Italian Renaissance. Download Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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