Research Catalog

Title

Collecting sculpture in early modern Europe / edited by Nicholas Penny and Eike D. Schmidt.

Publication

Washington : National Gallery of Art ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Penny, Nicholas, 1949-
• Schmidt, Eike D.
• National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Description

512 p. : ill. (some col.), map; 29 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in the history of art, 70 Centre for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. Symposium papers XLVII

Uniform Title

• Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ; 70.
• Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.). Symposium series ; 47.

Subjects

• Sculpture > Collectors and collecting > Europe > Congresses
• Sculpture, European > Congresses

Note

• Based on an international conference held on the occasion of the opening of the new sculpture galleries in the NGA, Washington, DC in 2003.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Collecting ancient sculpture : the beginnings / Salvatore Settis -- 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 -- Exhibition of sculpture on the Villa Borghese Facades in the time of Cardinal Scipione Borghese / Kristina Herrmann Fiore -- 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 -- Sir Francis Dashwood of West Wycombe Park, Buckinghamshire, as a collector of ancient and modern sculpture / Tim Knox -- Bronzes in two eighteenth-century Viennese collections / Manfred Leithe-Jasper -- Evolution of the plinth, pedestal, and socle / Nicholas Penny.

Call Number

JQZ 12-2609

ISBN

• 9780300121605 (alk. paper)
• 0300121601 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2007030965

OCLC

162126875

Title

Collecting sculpture in early modern Europe / edited by Nicholas Penny and Eike D. Schmidt.

Imprint

Washington : National Gallery of Art ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, c2008.

Series

Studies in the history of art, 70 Centre for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. Symposium papers XLVII

Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ; 70.

Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.). Symposium series ; 47.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Penny, Nicholas, 1949-

Schmidt, Eike D.

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Research Call Number

JQZ 12-2609