Foreword by Cyril
Humphris
7
Preface by Robert
H. Smith
10
Introduction by
Nicholas Penny
11
Acknowledgements
by Anthony Radcliffe 14
PART ONE:
BRONZE OBJECTS
MADE FOR USE 15
Hand-bell, Pietro
di Gaspare Campanario 18
2 Hand-bell,
workshop of the Grandi family
22
3 Pricket
candlestick, Paduan workshop, second quarter of sixteenth century 28
4 Four tortoises,
Zanobi Lastricati
36
5 Presentation
mortar, foundry of Caspar Dietrich 40
6 Hand-bell,
Netherlandish foundry, 1558
46
7 Oil lamp,
Italian, sixteenth century
50
8 Oil lamp,
Italian, sixteenth century
54
9 Ewer, Giuseppe
de Levis
58
Io Miniature
cannon, Orazio Antonio Alberghetti
64
PART TWO:
THE REVIVAL OF THE
ANTIQUE BRONZE STATUETTE 68
II The young
Hercules resting, north Italian, late fifteenth century 70
12 Spinario,
workshop of Severo Calzetta da Ravenna 80
13 Seated nymph,
Antico
84
14 Pacing
stallion, workshop of Severo Calzetta da Ravenna 90
PART THREE:
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
IN VENICE 95
15 Minerva,
Alessandro Vittoria
98
16 Hercules,
Francesco Segala 102
17 Astronomy,
Niccolô Roccatagliata 106
18 The four
elements, Niccolô Roccatagliata 112
19
Prometheus,Tiziano Aspetti 116
PART FOUR:
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
IN FLORENCE AND NORTH OF THE ALPS 122
20 Neptune, Baccio
Bandinelli 124
21 Theseus slaying
the centaur Bienor,Willem Danielsz. van Tetrode 130
22 Hercules
Pomarius,Willem Danielsz. van Tetrode 134
23 Minerva
(Pallas),Johann Gregor van der Schardt 140
24 Saturn
devouring one of his sons, Pietro Francavilla 146
PART FIVE:
SMALL BRONZES BY
AND AFTER GIAMBOLOGNA 152
25 Birdcatcher or
Fowler, Giovanni Bologna 154
26 Nessus and
Deianira, Antonio Susini 162
27 Rearing
stallion, Antonio Susini 17o
28 Bull, Antonio
Susini 174
29 Lion attacking
a stallion, Antonio Susini 178
30 Lion attacking
a stallion, Antonio Susini 182
31 Crouching
bather, Antonio Susini 186
32 Sleeping nymph
with satyr, Antonio Susini 190
33 Lion, Giovanni Francesco
Susini 194
34 Mars, Giovanni Francesco
Susini 198
35 Hercules and
Lichas, Florentine, early seventeenth century 202
PART SIX:
BARTHÉLEMY PRIEUR 208
36 Lion devouring
a doe, Barthélemy Prieur 210
37 Seated woman
pulling a thorn from her heel, Barthélemy Prieur 214
38 Woman pulling a
thorn from her heel, Barthélemy Prieur 218
39 Young Hercules,
Barthélemy Prieur 222
40 Pacing
stallion, attributed to Barthélemy Prieur 226
41 Bacchus with a
panther,F
ench, late
sixteenth or early seventeenth century 230
PART SEVEN:
FLORENTINE
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BRONZES 234
42 Pacing
stallion, attributed to Adriaen de Vries 236
43 Tarquin and
Lucretia, attributed to Pietro Tacca 240
44 The rape of a
Sabine, after a model by Adriaen de Vries 244
45 Hercules
supporting the heavens, Ferdinando Tacca 254
46 Horseman
killing a bull, Ferdinando Tacca 260
47 Pan and Diana,
Ferdinando Tacca 266
48 Rearing
stallion, Ferinando Tacca 269
49 David with the
head of Goliath, Giovanni Francesco Susini 272
50 Farnese Hercules, Giovanni
Francesco Susini 276
51 Venus and Adonis, Giovanni
Francesco Susini 280
52 Arrotino,
Florentine, mid-seventeenth century 286
53 Adam and Eve,
Francesco Fanelli 290
54 Marcus Curtius,
Francesco Fanelli 294
Interpreting the
Bronzes: A TechnicalView by Shelley Sturman 297
Bibliographical
Abbreviations 311
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