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20 minutes ago - COPY LINK TO DOWNLOAD : https://pdf.bookcenterapp.com/slide/1781301034 | [READ DOWNLOAD] Il Bresciano: Bronze-caster of Renaissance Venice | The first comprehensive study of an important Italian Renaissance onze-caster by a leading authority. A nucleus of sculptures cast by Andrea di Alessandri , commonly called from his native city, " Il Bresciano," or from his products, " Andrea dai onzi," has been identified over the centuries. His style has been described as having similarities both with the High Renaissance of Sansovino and the Mannerism of Vittoria, the two successive master-sculptors of 16th-century Venice for whom he cast major onzes. Andrea's signed masterpiece is a Paschal Candlestick in onze, over two metres high and with sixty or more fascinating figures, made for Sansovino's magnificent lost church of Santo Spirito in 1568 and now in Santa Maria della Salute. The author's identification in 1996 of a pair of magnificent Firedogs with sphinx feet (which in 1568 had been recommended to Prince Francesco de'Medici in Florence), and in 2015 of an elaborate figurative onze Ewer in Verona, have been the culmination of the process of recognition. Archival research has at last revealed the span of Andrea's life as 1524/25-1573, as well as many significant facts about his family and patronage. So the time is ripe for this comprehensive, well-illustrated, book on Il Bresciano, a " new" and major onzistà in the great tradition of north Italy.<br>
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Il Bresciano: Bronze-caster of Renaissance Venice Sinopsis : The first comprehensive study of an important Italian Renaissance onze-caster by a leading authority. A nucleus of sculptures cast by Andrea di Alessandri , commonly called from his native city, "Il Bresciano," or from his products, "Andrea dai onzi," has been identified over the centuries. His style has been described as having similarities both with the High Renaissance of Sansovino and the Mannerism of Vittoria, the two successive master-sculptors of 16th-century Venice for whom he cast major onzes. Andrea's signed masterpiece is a Paschal Candlestick in onze, over two metres high and with sixty or more fascinating figures, made for Sansovino's magnificent lost church of Santo Spirito in 1568 and now in Santa Maria della Salute. The author's identification in 1996 of a pair of magnificent Firedogs with sphinx feet (which in 1568 had been recommended to Prince Francesco de'Medici in Florence), and in 2015 of an elaborate figurative onze Ewer in Verona, have been the culmination of the process of recognition. Archival research has at last revealed the span of Andrea's life as 1524/25-1573, as well as many significant facts about his family and patronage. So the time is ripe for this comprehensive, well- illustrated, book on Il Bresciano, a "new" and major onzistà in the great tradition of north Italy.
