Recent Acquisitions Made to the Robert H. Smith Collection of Renaissance Bronzes
Recent Acquisitions Made to the Robert H. Smith Collection of Renaissance Bronzes

Author: Simona Cristanetti

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 64

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A subsequent supplement entitled "Bronze, boxwood, and ivory in the Robert H. Smith Collection of Renaissance Sculpture : a second supplement to the catalogue volume 'Art of the Renaissance Bronze 1500-1650'" (2015) is bound and shelved with The Burlington Magazine Vol. 157, no. 1351-1353 & Suppl. (2015).

Art of the Renaissance Bronze, 1500-1650
Art of the Renaissance Bronze, 1500-1650

Author: Anthony Radcliffe

Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 320

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Details with photographs and explanations of each piece found in the private collection of Robert H. Smith renaissance bronzes.

America's National Gallery of Art
America's National Gallery of Art

Author: Philip Kopper

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 0691172889

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America's National Gallery of Art, a 75th-anniversary history of the nation's art museum, founded by Andrew W. Mellon and opened to the public on March 17, 1941. Presenting an overview of the Gallery's first fifty years and a thematic look at the transformation the museum has undergone since 1992, the book offers extensive photographic essays that highlight the West Building, newly renovated East Building, and Sculpture Garden as well as the magnificent art collection and selected special exhibitions. The book includes accounts of the founding benefactors and four directors--David Finley, John Walker, J. Carter Brown, and now Earl A. Powell III--and discusses the Gallery's historic 2014 agreement to accept custody of the collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Bronzes, 1500-1650
Bronzes, 1500-1650

Author: Anthony Radcliffe

Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers

Published: 1994-10-26

Total Pages: 168

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The fruit of sixteen years of discriminating acquisition on the international art market, Robert Smith's is one of the most important collections of European bronzes in private hands today. Consisting of thirty pieces, all of the highest quality, it embraces the Renaissance in Italy and northern Europe in such a way that its components complement and enhance the appreciation of each other. Central to the collection is a group of thirteen pieces that illustrate the legacy of Giambologna in Florence, including the superb Nessus and Deianira by his pupil Antonio Susini, and the Hercules and Lichas, a unique record in bronze of a lost silver group by Giambologna himself. Around this are assembled pieces by independent contemporaries: Alessandro Vittoria and Francesco Segala in the Veneto, and the younger Genoese-born Niccolo Roccatagliata, whose surviving work is of the utmost rarity. A selection of fine early North Italian bronzes serves as an introduction to the collection, and the Netherlands and France are well represented - the former by Willem van Tetrode (who briefly worked with Cellini in Florence) and Jan Gregor van der Schardt; the latter by Barthelemy Prieur, official sculptor to Henry IV.