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Giovanni Battista Pacichelli e l’idea di scultura a Roma allo scadere del Seicento (con qualche annotazione sulla cappella del Battesimo in San Pietro)
No full textIl saggio mette in luce l'originale posizione critica sulla scultura barocca romana di Giovanni Battista Pacichelli, poligrafo seicentesco di vasta esperienza europea, più noto per i suoi studi sull'arte napoletana e del Vicereame. A partire dal suo ricco epistolario dato alle stampe allo scadere del Seicento, nel contributo non solo sono presentate notizie ad oggi malnote su artisti e opere, ma si indagano anche il modo e le categorie con cui busti-ritratto, statue e arredi potevano essere valutati e apprezzati nella Roma della seconda metà secolo
The Drill in Sculpture from Ancient Egypt to Modernism
No full text“The story of the use of the drill in European sculpture has not yet been written, although it should be fascinating.” So argued Rudolf Wittkower in one of the lectures on the processes and principles of sculpture that he gave as Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Cambridge in 1970. In agreement with Wittkower’s view, this volume presents a series of case studies on the use of the drill ranging from ancient Egypt to the beginning of the twentieth century. Conceived as a catalogue for an ideal exhibition, the book illustrates, in chronological order, various works of art whose creation significantly depended on this tool: not only statues and bas-reliefs, but also architectural decoration, vases in precious stone and utilitarian objects, made in a range of materials including marble, wood, clay, ivory and more.
This variety highlights the extraordinary challenge faced over millennia by the drill in its numerous forms (bow drills, gimlets, pump drills, to name but a few), which did not undergo significant technological transformation until the advent of electricity. This tool directly confronted, to a greater extent than others, the hardness of the sculptural materials, piercing them, splitting them and manipulating them beyond any apparent limitation set by nature. In its tussle with the drill, the very affordance of the material was threatened, defeated by the expressive will of the sculptors, their visual cultures, their frames of reference and their notions of nature and art.
This volume is devoted to the exploration and understanding of this challenge
Recensione di Lucia Simonato, Bernini scultore: il difficile dialogo con la modernità, Milano 2018, Electa ("Pesci rossi"), 301 pp., 98 tavole in b/n
No full textRecensione della monografia di Lucia Simonato sull'accoglienza critica e creativa del Bernini dal Settecento agli inizi del Novecento (Bernini scultore: il difficile dialogo con la modernità, Milano 2018, Electa ("Pesci rossi"), 301 pp., 98 tavole in b / nReview of Lucia Simonato's monograph on Bernini's critical and creative reception from the 18th to early 20th century (Bernini scultore: il difficile dialogo con la modernità, Milano 2018, Electa («Pesci rossi»), 301 pp., 98 tavv. in b/n
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