Italian Memorial Sculpture

Italian Memorial Sculpture

Author: Sandra Berresford

Publisher: Frances Lincoln

Published: 2004-10-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780711223844

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Italian monumental sculpture of the 19th and early 20th centuries is among the most remarkable ever made, and remains surprisingly unknown. Its emotional charge is caught in this collection of specially taken photographs, while the scholarly texts analyse the iconographic, cultural and art historical background to the works.


Catalogue And Brief Description Of The Plaster Reproductions Of The Greek And Italian Sculpture In The Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, Conn

Catalogue And Brief Description Of The Plaster Reproductions Of The Greek And Italian Sculpture In The Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, Conn

Author: Norwich Free Academy

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781020434389

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The Slater Memorial Museum in Norwich, Connecticut, is known for its outstanding collection of plaster casts of Greek and Italian sculptures. This catalogue provides a detailed description of the casts, including their provenance, history, and artistic significance. The catalogue is a valuable resource for art historians, curators, and anyone interested in the history of sculpture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.


Monument Man

Monument Man

Author: Harold Holzer

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1616898291

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The artist who created the statue for the Lincoln Memorial, John Harvard in Harvard Yard, and The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts, Daniel Chester French (1850–1931) is America's best-known sculptor of public monuments Monument Man is the first comprehensive biography of this fascinating figure and his illustrious career. Full of rich detail and beautiful archival photographs, Monument Man is a nuanced study of a preeminent artist whose evolution ran parallel to, and deeply influenced, the development of American sculpture, iconography, and historical memory. Monument Man was specially commissioned by Chesterwood / National Trust for Historic Preservation. The release will coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of Chesterwood, his country home and studio, as a public site and with a major renovation of the Lincoln Memorial. The book includes a comprehensive geographical guide to French's public work.


The Venus Fixers

The Venus Fixers

Author: Ilaria Dagnini Brey

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2010-06-22

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 0312429908

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An untold chapter in WWII history, the story of the corps of unlikely soldiers who saved Italy's most precious art and architecture from destruction.


Historical Handbook of Italian Sculpture

Historical Handbook of Italian Sculpture

Author: Charles C. (Charles Callahan) Perkins

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 9781290892902

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.


The Italian Presence in American Art, 1860-1920

The Italian Presence in American Art, 1860-1920

Author: Irma B. Jaffe

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780823213429

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The Italian Presence in American Art, 1760-1860, based on papers presented at a joint Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana/Fordham U. symposium held in 1987, was published in 1989. The present volume comprises 17 papers presented at the second joint symposium, dealing with American art from 1860 to 1920. It is also Volume II of what is now projected as a three-volume study of the Italian presence in American art, to be completed with a volume based on the third symposium (1991) covering the period 1920-1990. The production is lovely throughout, and the essays are illustrated with 16 color plates and 149 bandw figures. Co-published with the Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan

Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan

Author: Dianne L. Durante

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2007-02

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0814719872

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Stop, look, and discover—the streets and parks of Manhattan are filled with beautiful historic monuments that will entertain, stimulate, and inspire you. Among the 54 monuments in this volume are major figures in American history: Washington, Lincoln, Lafayette, Horace Greeley, and Gertrude Stein; more obscure figures: Daniel Butterfield, J. Marion Sims, and King Jagiello; as well as the icons of New York: Atlas, Prometheus, and the Firemen's Memorial. The monuments represent the work of some of America's best sculptors: Augustus Saint Gaudens’ Farragut and Sherman, Daniel Chester French’s Four Continents, and Anna Hyatt Huntington’s José Martí and Joan of Arc. Each monument, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, is located on a map of Manhattan and includes easy-to-follow directions. All the sculptures are considered both as historical mementos and as art. We learn of furious General Sherman court-martialing a civilian journalist, and also of exasperated Saint Gaudens’ proposing a hook-and-spring device for improving his assistants' artistic acuity as they help model Sherman. We discover how Lincoln dealt with a vociferous Confederate politician from Ohio, and why the Lincoln in Union Square doesn't rank as a top-notch Lincoln portrait. Sidebars reveal other aspects of the figure or event commemorated, using personal quotes, poems, excerpts from nineteenth-century periodicals (New York Times, Harper's Weekly), and writers ranging from Aeschylus, Washington Irving, and Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi to Mark Twain and Henryk Sienkiewicz. As a historical account, Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide is a fascinating look at figures and events that changed New York, the United States and the world. As an aesthetic handbook it provides a compact method for studying sculpture, inspired by Ayn Rand’s writings on art. For residents and tourists, and historians and students, who want to spend more time viewing and appreciating sculpture and New York history, this is the start of a unique voyage of discovery.


Sculpture from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery

Sculpture from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery

Author: Karen O. Janovy

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 080327629X

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"All of the 90 pieces selected from more than 350 works in the collection are presented here in full color, each accompanied by a brief discussion of the artist and his or her work by leading scholars in the field as well as authorities on the collection. The essays examine the works of sculptors represented in the Sheldon's collection, including Barlach, Brancusi, Calder, Duchamp, Moore, and Rodin, and present a concise yet comprehensive overview of pertinent scholarship that will be of value to both students and experts in the field."--BOOK JACKET.