Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, Eighteenth-century Restorer
Author : Seymour Howard
Publisher : Garland Publishing
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 50,75 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Art
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Author : Seymour Howard
Publisher : Garland Publishing
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 50,75 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Howard Seymour
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 22,64 MB
Release : 2002
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Page : 92 pages
File Size : 23,75 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Marble sculpture
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Author : Janet Burnett Grossman
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 2003-12-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892367237
The nineteen papers in this volume stem from a symposium that brought together academics, archaeologists, museum curators, conservators, and a practicing marble sculptor to discuss varying approaches to restoration of ancient stone sculpture. Contributors and their subjects include Marion True and Jerry Podany on changing approaches to conservation; Seymour Howard on restoration and the antique model; Nancy H. Ramage’s case study on the relationship between a restorer, Vincenzo Pacetti, and his patron, Luciano Bonaparte; Mette Moltesen on de-restoring and re-restoring in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek; Miranda Marvin on the Ludovisi collection; and Andreas Scholl on the history of restoration of ancient sculptures in the Altes Museum in Berlin. The book also features contributions by Elizabeth Bartman, Brigitte Bourgeois, Jane Fejfer, Angela Gallottini, Sascha Kansteiner, Giovanna Martellotti, Orietta Rossi Pinelli, Peter Rockwell, Edmund Southworth, Samantha Sportun, and Markus Trunk. Charles Rhyne summarizes the themes, approaches, issues, and questions raised by the symposium.
Author : Elaine K. Gazda
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472111893
Are copies of Greek and Roman masterpieces as important as the originals they imitate?
Author : Viccy Coltman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 33,33 MB
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 019955126X
This is an illustrated study of the reception of classical sculptures in the early modern period. Viccy Coltman contrasts the culture of British 18th century collecting, which integrated sculpture into the domestic interior, with the focus upon individual specimens by archaeologists like Adolf Michaelis a century later.
Author : Eloisa Dodero
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 36,2 MB
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004399100
In Ancient Marbles in Naples in the Eighteenth Century Eloisa Dodero aims at documenting the history of numerous private collections formed in Naples during the 18th century, with particular concern for the “Neapolitan marbles” and the circumstances of their dispersal.
Author : Sandra Michelle Barr
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 26,87 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN :
Unbeknownst to the public and many scholars, the vast majority of ancient sculptural works - which are displayed in museums and cited in many textbooks as original and canonical pieces - are actually extensively restored eighteenth-century variations. Although during that time period extensive, and often creative, restoration was a well accepted practice, this does call into question the authenticity of these pieces and their usefulness as paradigms of ancient art. This is especially true for one of the most iconic and well known of ancient sculptural works - the Discobolus. The original bronze statue of a young nude discus thrower was created in the mid-fifth century BC by the Greek artist Myron. The original sculpture no longer exists. The extant works are all restorations of Roman marble copies with linkage to an extremely prolific eighteenth-century Italian sculptor and restorer, Bartolomeo Cavaceppi. This dissertation explores the work and practice of Cavaceppi during the early period of Neoclassicism, with special emphasis on the restoration of five different variants of the Discobolus. It begins with an examination of the original Greek statue and why so many Roman copies were made. The main focus, however, is on the variations that were introduced when the Roman pieces were restored between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, most notably those connected to the workshop of Cavaceppi. Using the Discobolus as a case study, my intention is to clarify the nature of these restored ancient pieces.
Author : Jan Zahle
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 8772192860
The Danish neoclassical sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844), who lived most of his life in Rome, was not only one of Europe’s most soughtafter artists; he was also a collector. In addition to his own works and drawings, he built extensive collections of paintings, prints, drawings and books – and of ancient artefacts from Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquity: coins, lockets, containers, vases, lamps, fragments of sculpture and more. He also acquired a large collection of plaster casts, primarily after ancient sculptures and reliefs, but also of works dating from the Renaissance and up until his own lifetime. Thanks to Thorvaldsen’s bequest to the city of Copenhagen, his birthplace, all of these collections are still largely intact and well preserved at his museum. Home to a total of 657 plaster casts, the Thorvaldsen Museum’s cast collection is unique for several reasons: The collection offers us insight into the sculptor’s working methods and the development of his work because it served a clear function as an image bank of forms, motifs and subjects for Thorvaldsen’s own endeavours. Furthermore, the dual fact that the collection is so well preserved and was established over a relatively brief period of time makes it a valuable example illuminating the trade and distribution of plaster casts during the first half of the nineteenth century. These areas of study form the central focal point of Volume I of this publication. Volume II contains a catalogue of the individual objects in the cast collection, while Volume III collects the overviews, inventories, concordances and primary sources referred to in the first two volumes. Arising out of many years of study of Thorvaldsen’s cast collection conducted by their author, the classical archaeologist Jan Zahle, these books contain comprehensive source material from the period, much of it previously unknown.
Author : Peggy Fogelman
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 2002-12-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892366893
The catalogue is abundantly illustrated, including multiple views of each sculpture."--BOOK JACKET.