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Joseph de Levis and Company: Renaissance Bronze Founders in Verona
Charles Avery
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Description for Joseph de Levis and Company: Renaissance Bronze Founders in Verona
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16 colour, 204 bw. BIC Classification: 1DST; ACND; AFKB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 274 x 212. .
Joseph de Levis applied his distinctive signature (between 1577 and 1605) to a whole range of fantastic, Mannerist, bronze artefacts, some 45 in all. They range from large church-bells - some still in situ - and miniature table-bells, to mortars, inkstands, perfume-burners, door-knockers, firedogs, statuettes, and even a portrait-bust. Joseph's sons and nephews continued the family business into the seventeenth century, signing a similar range of artefacts in an early Baroque style. This book provides a unique cross-section of the production of a hard-working and resilient renaissance foundry. Frequently inscriptions and coats-of-arms specify his wide-ranging clientele, from civic and ... Read more
Joseph de Levis applied his distinctive signature (between 1577 and 1605) to a whole range of fantastic, Mannerist, bronze artefacts, some 45 in all. They range from large church-bells - some still in situ - and miniature table-bells, to mortars, inkstands, perfume-burners, door-knockers, firedogs, statuettes, and even a portrait-bust. Joseph's sons and nephews continued the family business into the seventeenth century, signing a similar range of artefacts in an early Baroque style. This book provides a unique cross-section of the production of a hard-working and resilient renaissance foundry. Frequently inscriptions and coats-of-arms specify his wide-ranging clientele, from civic and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Philip Wilson Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781300480
SKU
V9781781300480
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About Charles Avery
Dr Charles Avery is a specialist on European sculpture, particularly Italian, French, English and Flemish. A graduate of Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute of Art he later obtained a doctorate from Cambridge. He is a Cavaliere of the Order of Merit of Italy, and has been a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a Trustee of ... Read more
Reviews for Joseph de Levis and Company: Renaissance Bronze Founders in Verona
a fascinating glimpse of an all but hidden world
David Ekserdjian, Evening Standard (12/22/2016) Avery's understanding of the bronze-founder's world and its daily associations is unsurpassed...compelling
Donald Johnson, Apollo
David Ekserdjian, Evening Standard (12/22/2016) Avery's understanding of the bronze-founder's world and its daily associations is unsurpassed...compelling
Donald Johnson, Apollo