Collecting Sculpture in Early Modern Europe

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Edited by Nicholas Penny and Eike D. Schmidt

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Among the precursors of today’s public museums, perhaps the most important are collections of sculpture formed in the early modern era by royal families, aristocratic amateurs, and artists. In this, the first book to survey the practice of collecting sculpture from late medieval times to the 19th century, twenty renowned scholars explore the collections of eminent artists and great princes throughout Europe. The case studies examine acquisition methods and the value that collectors placed on sculpture—coins, reliefs, busts, and statues—for opulent interior decoration and outdoor display or for use as studio models.

 

A wide range of topics is explored, including the appeal of antiquities, the Medici ivory collection, and the business of supplying garden statues in Northern Europe, as well as ways of displaying sculpture and the meanings it had when placed on the façade of a villa or in a palace garden. Together the essays allow a comparative reading of European sculpture collections and the motives underlying their formation.

 



Published by the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts / Distributed by Yale University Press

Nicholas Penny is senior curator of sculpture and decorative art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Eike D. Schmidt is associate curator of sculpture and decorative arts at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

"Under the editorship of Nicholas Penny and Eike Schmidt, this volume represents a large tranche of recent sculptural scholarship within its covers. The editing has been generous and light, retaining the ‘voice’ of each author, and the superb illustrations and very useful index make this a volume that all serious sculpture scholars will want for their bookcase."—Antonia Boström, Sculpture Journal
ISBN: 9780300121605
Publication Date: June 24, 2008
Publishing Partner: Published by the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts / Distributed by Yale University Press
512 pages, 9 x 11
383 b/w + 56 color illus.
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