Author: Bresc-Bautier, Geneviève and Guilhem Scherf
Title: Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Description: Paris, Musée du Louvre Éditions / Somogy Art Publishers, 2009. Hardcover. black cloth boards w/ illustrated dustjacket. 534 pages : illustrations (chiefly color). content as follows: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, Oct. 22, 2008-Jan. 19, 2009, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Feb. 24-May 24, 2009, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, June 30-Sept. 27, 2009./ Issued also in French, c2008, with title: Bronzes français de la Renaissance au Siècle des lumières./ Includes bibliographical references (pages 496-523) and index. cONTENTS AS FOLLOWS: The international taste for French bronze sculpture / Jonathan Marsden -- French bronzes, 16th-18th centuries : notes on technique / Francesca G. Bewer, David Bourgarit, Jane Bassett -- French bronzes from Renaissance to revolution : but are they bronze? / Jean-Marie Welter -- From Mannerism to the affirmation of Classicism, 1540-1660. The art of bronze in France, 1500-1660 / Geneviève Bresc-Bautier -- Barthélemy Prieur / Regina Seelig-Teuwen -- From Henri IV to Louis XIII -- The young Louis XIV, 1643-1661 -- Michel Anguier / Ian Wardropper -- A major art under Louis XIV. Bronzes in the age of Louis XIV / Françoise de La Moureyre -- From art casting to the dissemination of models : the role of founders in the 18th century / Odile Fouchy-Le Bras -- Girardon and bronze / Françoise de La Moureyre -- Girardon's collection -- Hurtrelle and Lespingola -- The monuments to Louis XIV / Françoise de La Moureyre -- Portraits -- Évrard Titon du Tillet and The French Parnassus / Alexandre Maral -- Raymond Leplat's acquisitions of French bronzes for Augustus the Strong / Martina Minning -- The age of enlightenment, from Rocaille to Neoclassicism. French bronzes in the 18th century / Guilhem Scherf -- Paintings in metal / Robert Wenley -- Philippe Bertrand / Jonathan Marsden -- Corneille van Clève / Guilhem Scherf -- Robert le Lorrain / Guilhem Scherf -- The monuments to Louis XV / Guilhem Scherf -- The second half of the 18th century -- Jean-Antoine Houdon / Guilhem Scherf -- Portraits -- The revolutionary years. New/Sealed .
Keywords: ; European Sculpture ; ;
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Title: Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Description: Paris, Musée du Louvre Éditions / Somogy Art Publishers, 2009. Hardcover. black cloth boards w/ illustrated dustjacket. 534 pages : illustrations (chiefly color). content as follows: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, Oct. 22, 2008-Jan. 19, 2009, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Feb. 24-May 24, 2009, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, June 30-Sept. 27, 2009./ Issued also in French, c2008, with title: Bronzes français de la Renaissance au Siècle des lumières./ Includes bibliographical references (pages 496-523) and index. cONTENTS AS FOLLOWS: The international taste for French bronze sculpture / Jonathan Marsden -- French bronzes, 16th-18th centuries : notes on technique / Francesca G. Bewer, David Bourgarit, Jane Bassett -- French bronzes from Renaissance to revolution : but are they bronze? / Jean-Marie Welter -- From Mannerism to the affirmation of Classicism, 1540-1660. The art of bronze in France, 1500-1660 / Geneviève Bresc-Bautier -- Barthélemy Prieur / Regina Seelig-Teuwen -- From Henri IV to Louis XIII -- The young Louis XIV, 1643-1661 -- Michel Anguier / Ian Wardropper -- A major art under Louis XIV. Bronzes in the age of Louis XIV / Françoise de La Moureyre -- From art casting to the dissemination of models : the role of founders in the 18th century / Odile Fouchy-Le Bras -- Girardon and bronze / Françoise de La Moureyre -- Girardon's collection -- Hurtrelle and Lespingola -- The monuments to Louis XIV / Françoise de La Moureyre -- Portraits -- Évrard Titon du Tillet and The French Parnassus / Alexandre Maral -- Raymond Leplat's acquisitions of French bronzes for Augustus the Strong / Martina Minning -- The age of enlightenment, from Rocaille to Neoclassicism. French bronzes in the 18th century / Guilhem Scherf -- Paintings in metal / Robert Wenley -- Philippe Bertrand / Jonathan Marsden -- Corneille van Clève / Guilhem Scherf -- Robert le Lorrain / Guilhem Scherf -- The monuments to Louis XV / Guilhem Scherf -- The second half of the 18th century -- Jean-Antoine Houdon / Guilhem Scherf -- Portraits -- The revolutionary years. New/Sealed .
Keywords: ; European Sculpture ; ;
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- Book number: 175724
- Book number: 175724
See more books from our catalog: Museum Exhibitions - European Art