The Performance of Sculpture in Renaissance Venice

Lorenzo G. Buonanno (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

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English

Routledge
25 September 2023

Renaissance art; Non-graphic art forms

Series: Routledge Research in Art History

This study reveals the broad material, devotional, and cultural implications of sculpture in Renaissance Venice.

Examining a wide range of sources—the era’s art-theoretical and devotional literature, guidebooks and travel diaries, and artworks in various media—Lorenzo Buonanno recovers the sculptural values permeating a city most famous for its painting. The book traces the interconnected phenomena of audience response, display and thematization of sculptural bravura, and artistic self-fashioning.

It will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance history, early modern art and architecture, material culture, and Italian studies.

By: Lorenzo G. Buonanno (University of Massachusetts Boston)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 716g
ISBN: 9781032204673
ISBN 10: 1032204672
Series: Routledge Research in Art History
Pages: 284
Publication Date: 25 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. Stone Mediators 2. Dreamworlds and Studioli: Sculptures for the Imagination 3. Making and Breaking 4. Signed in Stone

Lorenzo G. Buonanno is Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Reviews for The Performance of Sculpture in Renaissance Venice

"""This book could become fundamental for the study of Venetian Renaissance art. The discussion reaches across art forms, showing their remarkable interdependence even when the practitioners of painting and sculpture were assigned to separate professional organizations, and elucidates the ways sculptures may have worked in their physical, spiritual-devotional and theoretical contexts."" Alison Luchs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. ""This manuscript relies on sensitive visual analysis, on the study of ritual and ceremony …, on the analysis of religion and liturgy in Venice, on the consideration of Venetian history and literature and language, and on the reading of a range of textual sources …. This study is, in a word, interdisciplinary. More than anything else, however, it focuses on the artworks themselves, arguing that, to comprehend fifteenth-century Venetian sculptures, we must consider their spectacular material forms, which are often remarkably crafted, as well as the techniques used to fashion them."" Amy R. Bloch, University at Albany"