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Sketches in Clay for Projects by Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Theoretical Technical and Case Studies Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin Spring 1999 Volume VI Number 3
1999rif. 14103Cambridge MA: Harvard University Art Museums 1999. Softcover. VG corner bumped. Color wraps. 179 pp. 207 bw plates. This volume is devoted to the greatest sculptor and architect of the Roman Baroque Gian Lorenzo Bernini on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his birth in 1998. Studies in detail clay sculptures acquired by Edward Forbes that are clearly associated with projects by Bernini. Concentrates heavily on technical analysis of the physical character of art objects. Contents as follows: An economy of seventeenth-century clay sculptors' models / Ivan Gaskell -- Of clay and the initial stages of sculpture / Colette Czapski Hemingway -- Technical studies: rationale and techniques / Henry Lie -- Clay analysis / Eugene F. Farrell Henry Lie and Suzanne M.M. Young -- The clay modeling techniques of Gian Lorenzo Bernini / Anthony B. Sigel -- Technical observations and petrographic analysis / Anthony B. Sigel and Eugene F. Farrell -- Fingerprints / Nancy Lloyd -- Decorative coatings on the St. Longinus and St. Ambrose modelli / Kendra Roth -- The Fogg Silence: a Bozzetto by Melchiorre Cafà / Jennifer Montagu -- Bernini's St. Ambrose for the Cathedra Petri: a model and the metamorphosis of a figure / Jeannine O'Grady -- Bernini drawings and Bozzetti for the Ponte Sant'Angelo: a new look / Mark S. Weil -- Borchini Félibien and five angels for the altar of the Blessed Sacrament / Colette Czapski Hemingway -- Bronze casts after Bozzetti and Modelli by Bernini / Francesca G. Bewer -- Conclusion / Henry Lie. Harvard University Art Museums paperback books
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