The Performance of Sculpture in Renaissance Venice

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The Performance of Sculpture in Renaissance Venice is written by Lorenzo G. Buonanno and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1000540499 (ISBN 10) and 9781000540499 (ISBN 13).

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.