Earth and Fire: Italian Terracotta Sculpture from Donatello to Canova
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Hardcover. Orange cloth boards with gilt lettering; color illustrated dj, color illustrated frontispiece; 311 pp; illustrated throughout in color. VG/VG (pages are crisp and clean. Light edgewear. Sticker residue to rear of dj.). Item #187146
ISBN: 9780300090802
Contents: Italian Renaissance terracotta : artistic revival or technological innovation? / Bruce Boucher -- Michelangelo : the master modeler / Jeannine O'Grody -- Base or noble material? : clay sculpture in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italy / Maria Giulia Barberini -- Bernini's models for the angels of the Ponte Sant'Angelo in Rome / Bruce Boucher -- Canova's work in clay / Hugh Honour -- The making of terracotta sculpture : techniques and observations / Charlotte Hubbard and Peta Motture -- Catalogue. "The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 18, 2001-February 3, 2002, Victoria and Albert Museum, March 14, 2002-July 7, 2002"--Title page verso.
OCLC: 48236706
Price: $50.00