Synopses & Reviews
This beautiful book features masterpieces of sculpture in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum datingand#160;from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century.and#160;Celebrated works by the great European sculptorsand#8212;including Luca and Andrea della Robbia, Juan Martand#237;nez Montaand#241;and#233;s, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Antoine-Louis Barye, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Edgar Degas, and Auguste Rodinand#8212;are joined by strikingand#160;new additions to the collection, notably Franz Xaver Messerschmidt's remarkable bust of a troubled and introspective man.and#160;
The ninety-two selected examples are diverse in media (marble, bronze, wood, terracotta, andand#160;ivory) and sizeand#8212;ranging from a tiny oil lamp fantastically conceived and decorated by the Renaissance bronze sculptor Riccio to Antonio Canova's eight-foot-high Perseus with the Head of Medusa, executed in the heroic Neoclassical style. Incorporating information fromand#160;the latest scholarly research and recentand#160;conservation studies, sculpture specialist Ian Wardropper discusses the history and significance of the highlighted works, each of which is reproduced with glorious new photography.
Review
and#8220;[A] beautiful an accessible overview of one of the worldand#8217;s great collections of statuary.and#8221;and#8212;Library Journal
About the Author
Ian Wardropper, former Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Chairman of the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is Director of The Frick Collection.