The bronze casting challenge

P. 103-109

• Chapters from the same volume (available individually)

  • On primacy
  • Pisa and antiquity
  • Antiquities and antiquarians in Florence in the first half of the 15th century
  • Opus francigenum? : sic et non the influence of french art in Tuscany and central Italy during the gothic period
  • The work site of Santa Maria del Fiore
  • Representing the nude figure in Early Renaissance florentine art.
  • 1400-10 : the Dawn of the Renaissance
  • Brunelleschi's dome in the cultural and other landscapes of Florence
  • Exaltation of civic life and ancient culture : the flux and reflux of romanitas among florentine humanists
  • Almost like living people, and no longer figures of stone
  • Metalwork and sculpture in 15th-century florentine art.
  • The bronze casting challenge
  • The Spiritelli of the Renaissance
  • Saints and infants
  • From the pagan idol to Donatello's Bronze horse : the iconography of condottieri in florentine sculpture in the early 15th century
  • Donatello, creator of the modern public equestrian monument
  • Sculptured painting in early Renaissance Florence
  • Donatello's challenge, variously echoed, from Masaccio to Filippo Lippi
  • Optics and perspective prior to Alberti
  • The pyramid and the intentiones : Alhacen, Alberti and the composition of stories in painting
  • Alla maniera de' Fiorentini : the spread of taste and its trends in the italian Renaissance
  • A new, useful and beautiful art : considerations on the invention of glazed sculpture
  • The 1439 Council
  • Solidarity and piety in Florence
  • The rebirth of the sculpted portrait in 15th-century Florence
  • The arts in the Palazzi, 1450-70
  • Worship, admiration, display : domestic sculptures
  • Sculptural decoration in patrician palaces
  • Catalogue
  • Bibliographical references
• Information

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