The Performance of Sculpture in Renaissance Venice

The Performance of Sculpture in Renaissance Venice
ISBN-10
1000540499
ISBN-13
9781000540499
Category
Art
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2022-03-03
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Lorenzo G. Buonanno

Description

This study reveals the broad material, devotional, and cultural implications of sculpture in Renaissance Venice. Examining a wide range of sources—the era’s art-theoretical and devotional literature, guidebooks and travel diaries, and artworks in various media—Lorenzo 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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