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Author:   Evonne Levy ,  Carolina Mangone ,  Dr. Allison Levy
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.793kg
ISBN:  

9781472459220

ISBN 10:   1472459229
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   21 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents List of Illustrations vii Contributors xiii Preface xvii Acknowledgments xxi Abbreviations xxiii Obstacles in the Path to a Material Bernini (1900–Present) 1 Evonne Levy PART I: IMMATERIAL/MATERIAL The Matter of Metaphor: Truth, Sculpture, and the Word 23 Maarten Delbeke Im/material Bernini 39 Fabio Barry Bernini scultore pittoresco 69 Carolina Mangone Body and Clay: Material Agency from an Early Modern Perspective 105 Joris van Gastel PART II: CLAY BOZZETTI What Is a Bozzetto? 123 Michael Cole Bernini’s Bozzetti and the Trope of Fire 147 Steven F. Ostrow The Concept of Bernini’s “Calculated Spontaneity”: A Critical Reassessment 169 Tara L. Nadeau vi material bernini Bernini/Not Bernini: Reflections on the Role of Technical Evidence in the Attribution of Bernini’s Terracottas 187 C.D. Dickerson III and Anthony Sigel Bibliography 219 Index 239

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...a timely, stimulating, and significant contribution to scholarship on Bernini and to the study of seventeenth-century European sculpture more generally. Estelle Lingo, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

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Evonne Levy is Professor of Art History at the University of Toronto, Canada. Carolina Mangone is Assistant Professor at Princeton University, USA.

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