The Performance of Sculpture in Renaissance Venice
English
By (author): Lorenzo G. Buonanno
This study reveals the broad material, devotional, and cultural implications of sculpture in Renaissance Venice.
Examining a wide range of sourcesthe eras art-theoretical and devotional literature, guidebooks and travel diaries, and artworks in various mediaLorenzo Buonanno recovers the sculptural values permeating a city most famous for its painting. The book traces the interconnected phenomena of audience response, display and thematization of sculptural bravura, and artistic self-fashioning.
It will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance history, early modern art and architecture, material culture, and Italian studies.
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