TY - BOOK ID - 32779743 TI - The history of Venetian Renaissance sculpture, ca. 1400-1530 PY - 2017 SN - 9781909400733 1909400734 9781909400719 1909400718 9781909400726 1909400726 PB - London Harvey Miller Publishers DB - UniCat KW - Sculpture, Renaissance Italy Venice KW - Sculpture de la Renaissance KW - Sculpture, Italian KW - Sculpture, Renaissance KW - Sculptors KW - Biography KW - Sculpture KW - Italian Renaissance-Baroque styles KW - anno 1500-1599 KW - anno 1400-1499 KW - Venice KW - Venetiaanse school UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32779743 AB - As the first comprehensive treatment of Venetian sculpture of the early Renaissance in nearly a century, this book examines the documents, literary sources, and oeuvre of all Venetian sculptors in stone, bronze, and wood between the decoration of the crowning of San Marco at the beginning of the fifteenth century and the artistic revolution wrought by Jacopo Sansovino from ca. 1530 on. Its text pays particular attention to the style of individual works, to their physical and artistic context, their sources and their influence, and synthesizes forty-five years of attentive looking, of research in archives and libraries of the Veneto, and hundreds of photographic campaigns throughout Italy and as far afield as Croatia and Poland - many from specially mounted scaffolds. The introduction treats general questions of material, purpose, patronage, the origin of sculptors, their workshop practices and the structure of guilds, while the conclusion considers ways in which Venetian sculpture was unique--jacquette ER -