An Introduction to Italian Sculpture Volume Two.
Fourth Edition.
John Pope-Hennessy's 'Introduction To Italian Sculpture' remains unsurpassed as the classic work on the subject. A triumph of clear organisation, sustained scholarship and sure aesthetic judgement, its three volumes bring order to a huge mass of material, and present a magisterial survey of one of the most creative phases in Western art. With their lucid narrative texts and detailed biographical and bibliographical notes, they have long been indispensable for scholars, students, curators, collectors and dealers.
Volume II covers the 15th century, one of the great creative periods of Italian sculpture. It opens with Brunelleschi and Donatello in Florence, who, in reviving the naturalistic principles by which Antique art had been inspired, established a new relationship between the sculptor and the world about him. By 1500 the movement had spread to all the principal artistic centres of Italy.
Dominated by the revolutionary genius of Donatello, the period saw the development, or revival, of the free-standing statue, the relief, the bronze statuette, the equestrian monument and the portrait bust. The great masters include Luca della Robbia, Verrocchio, Antonio Rosellino, Desiderio da Settignano, Riccio, Francesco Laurana and Tullio Lombardo.
'Italian Renaissance Sculpture' has been revised, updated and redesigned with illustrations (now in duotone) integrated in a single sequence with the narrative.
