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Virgin of the Annunciation, ca. 1300–1310
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Assumption of the Virgin, Taddeo di Bartolo
Montepulciano, Duomo
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Spring 2025
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or several hundred years, until about 1900, a
limited number of antique sculptures were
as much admired as are the Mona Lisa, Botticelli’s
Birth of Venus or Michelangelo’s David today. They
were reproduced in marble, bronze and lead,
as plaster casts in academies and art schools, as
porcelain figurines for chimneypieces and as
cameos for bracelets and snuffboxes. They were
celebrated by poets from Du Bellay and Marino to
Byron and D’Annunzio, and memorably evoked by
novelists as diverse as Marcel Proust and Nathaniel
Hawthorne, George Eliot and Charles Dickens.
Copies of some of these statues can be seen at
Pavlosk and Madrid, at Stourhead, Charlottenburg,
Malibu and Versailles, and in countless gardens,
houses and museums throughout the world.
How and when did these particular sculptures
achieve such a special status? Who were the collec-
tors, restorers, dealers, artists, dilettanti, scholars
and archaeologists who created their reputations?
Under what names (often wildly fanciful) did they
first become famous? How were they interpreted,
and how and when and why did their glamour be-
gin to wane? These are some of the problems that
are confronted in Taste and the Antique.
Taste and the Antique has become a classic of art
history since its original publication in 1981.
This revised and amplified edition significantly
updates the information based on new research
undertaken in the last several decades, as well as
expanding examples of the reception and influence
of these works by artists and collectors from the
Renaissance through to contemporary art.
3 vols, 1684 p., 186 b/w ills, 1592 col. ills, 220 x 280 mm, 2024,
ISBN 978-1-909400-25-2
Hardback: € 395 / $494.00 / £336.00
Series: VISTAS, vol. 3
Available
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Since its original publication in 1981, Taste and The Antique has rightfully earned its status as a seminal
work in art history. The book vividly traces how ancient sculpture shaped artistic tastes, inspired
collectors, and left an indelible mark on art from the Renaissance to the present day.
Now, in this newly revised and expanded edition of three volumes, readers are offered an even richer
selection of examples and images, bringing the enduring influence of classical art to life more vividly
than ever before.
Taste and
the Antique
The Lure of Classical
Sculpture: 1500-1900
Nicholas Penny, Francis Haskell †
Updated and Revised by
Adriano Aymonino, Eloisa Dodero,
Revised and Amplified Edition
The original edition
has been expanded
into three volumes:
Volume 1 is a revised and amplified version
of the 1981 edition. Fifteen chapters trace
in narrative form, with the support of a
wide variety of plates, the rise and decline
of this highly important episode in the
history of taste. These chapters are followed
by catalogue entries for 95 of the most
celebrated sculptures, all of them illustrated,
which provide information on when and
where they were discovered, changes of
ownership and nomenclature, as well as a
record of varying critical fortunes designed
to complement the more general discussion
in the earlier chapters.
Volume 2 contains especially commissioned
new photographys of over 90 statues cata-
logued in Volume 1.
Volume 3 is entirely devoted to a visual sur-
vey of the full range of replicas and adapta-
tions of the works catalogued and illustrated
in the previous volumes.
The book is indispensable for historians of
taste, and to art historians concerned with
the debt owed by numerous artists from the
Renaissance onwards to the art of ancient
Greece and Rome; and it is also of great
value to students and collectors of the many
surviving copies of the sculptures discussed.
Winged Victory of Samothrace, Yves Klein
Private Collection
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Raffaele Riario,
Jacopo Galli, and
Michelangelo’s
Bacchus, 1471–1572
Kathleen W. Christian
A new interpretation of Michelangelo’s Bacchus and
its Roman context.
n Michelangelo’s first day in Rome, in June
1496, Cardinal Raffaele Riario asked him if he
could create ‘something beautiful’ in competition
with the antique. The twenty-one-year old sculptor
responded to this unique challenge with the
statue of Bacchus now in the Bargello museum.
This statue, as well as the Sleeping Cupid which first
brought Michelangelo to Riario’s attention, have
long been shrouded in mystery, and the Bacchus as
well as its patron have long suffered from critical
censure.
Through a comprehensive analysis of overlooked and
previously-unpublished sources, this study sheds
new light on the Sleeping Cupid, the Bacchus, and a fas-
cinating period in the history of Renaissance Rome
when the careers of Riario, Galli, and Michelangelo
were closely intertwined. It considers the rise of
the Riario dynasty starting with the election of
Pope Sixtus IV in 1471, Riario’s partnership with
Jacopo Galli in the reconstruction of the palace
now known as the Palazzo della Cancelleria, the
attempted sale of Michelangelo’s Sleeping Cupid
in Rome as an antiquity, Riario’s patronage of
the Bacchus, and the Bacchus’s display in the house
of the Galli up until its sale to the Medici in 1572.
Taking a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, it
offers a fundamental reassessment of Cardinal
Riario’s career as a patron, of Jacopo Galli’s role as
an intermediary for both Riario and Michelangelo,
and of Michelangelo’s collaboration with Riario
and Galli.
approx. 397 p., 35 b/w ills, 207 col. ills, 220 x 280 mm,
ISBN 978-1-915487-11-7 / eISBN 978-1-915487-24-7
Hardback: € 100 / $125.00 / £85.00
Series: All'antica, vol. 2
forthcoming
OPEN ACCESS
Problems in
the History of
Venetian Sculpture
and their Solution
volume 1: Texts
volume 2: Images
Anne Markham Schulz
mploying a range of methodologies, Anne
Markham Schulz tackles problems of long-
standing in the history of Venetian Renaissance
sculpture; her solutions have often changed the
narrative of its development and an estimation of
its worth. Through the stylistic and iconographic
examination of sculptures, some previously un-
known, together with published and unpublished
documents and sources, and matched by abun-
dant illustrations made especially for the purpose
of debate, she resolves questions of attribution,
function, meaning, and chronology of works by
established sculptors, such as Pietro, Tullio, and
Antonio Lombardo, and introduces to the history
of Venetian art notable sculptors whose traces dis-
appeared centuries ago, such as Antonio Bonvicino,
Niccolò di Giovanni Fiorentino, Bartolomeo
Terrandi, and Simone Bianco. Her articles, which
have provided fixed points in the historiography
of Venetian Renaissance sculpture, are here repub-
lished and brought up to date with postscripts by
the author.
approx. 800 p., 323 b/w ills, 225 x 300 mm,
ISBN 978-1-915487-69-8
Hardback: approx. € 195 / $244.00 / £166.00
Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History
forthcoming
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Shipping Sculptures
from Early Modern
Italy
The Mechanics, Costs,
Risks, and Rewards
Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio
This study offers a new approach to the study of cross-
cultural artistic exchange by examining the practical
details of object movement by land and sea from Italy to
Spain.
xamines the vast number of sculptures trans-
ported from Italy to Spain between c. 1500
and 1750. This study is based on an extensive anal-
ysis of archival documentation, which sheds light
on the practical challenges involved in creating
and transporting sculptures. It explores the devel-
opment of technologies, infrastructure, and labor
organization essential for moving sculptures by
land and sea.
Artists, patrons, and agents placed the eventual
movement to the destination at the center of deci-
sion-making when commissioning new sculptures
for shipment. Sending antiquities or second-hand
works required even more planning and care.
Shipping Sculptures offers a new framework for
understanding cross-cultural artistic exchange,
state gifts, collecting, and patronage by focusing
on the practicalities of transporting objects across
challenging geographies.
231 p., 77 col. ills, 220 x 280 mm,
ISBN 978-1-915487-45-2
Hardback: € 95 / $119.00 / £81.00
Published outside a Series
Available
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The Crystal Heart
Love, Poetry, and Portraiture
in Renaissance Italy
Lina Bolzoni
This book reveals an original investigation of
Renaissance literature and portraiture.
n his Canzoniere, Petrarch evokes the image of
the “crystal heart” as a metaphor for a corre-
spondence between the inner self and external
appearance. Expanding on the classical theme
of the soul’s open window, the metaphor of the
crystal heart embodies the utopia of amorous
transparency, conveying the desire to cast aside
the barriers between interior and exterior,
between emotion and expression, rendering love
perfectly visible from the outside. Using this im-
age as a heuristic tool, Lina Bolzoni takes us into
an original investigation of Renaissance literature
and portraiture. Focusing on and taking as a de-
parture point Pietro Bembo’s famous dialogue on
love, the Asolani (first published in 1505), Bolzoni
guides us into a meaningful exploration of love
poetry and prose, letters, paintings, mirrors, and
medals. Barriers fixed by the critical tradition fall
along the way, for words, images, and objects, far
from being relegated to their own spheres, refer
constantly back and forth to one another, their
interconnections woven together into refined and
secret rituals that disclose the centrality of love in
Italian Renaissance culture and society. Bolzoni’s
magistral book reveals not only the pivotal role
played by a reflection on love in the creation of
a new court society, and of the early-modern
courtier, but also love’s inextricable bond with
friendship and the pleasures of interpretation.
336 p., 2 b/w ills, 81 col. ills, 220 x 280 mm,
ISBN 978-1-915487-50-6
Hardback: € 160 / $200.00 / £136.00
Series: Renovatio Artium, vol. 16
forthcoming
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Years of News
Event and Narration
in Early Modern Times
Brendan Dooley, Paola Molino (eds)
This collection of essays approaches the history of early
modern news from a unique standpoint: by analyzing the
stories that made the news in Europe, in particular years
across the period from 1588 to 1700, in all of the major
genres, including manuscript and print, single and serial
publication, open and clandestine.
n the early modern springtime of regular
news production and consumption, what was
the news? Where did it come from? Where did
it go? Years of News surveys the world of early
modern news, in script and print, in a variety of
languages, from a unique vantage point: namely,
the news productivity across Europe in a series
of carefully chosen years. Contributors, applying
a wide variety of innovative approaches and
methodologies to original material from archives
and libraries far and wide, have explored the
stories and the tellers, the networks and the
vectors, the effects and reactions. Diving deeply
into the data without losing sight of the wider
perspective, they seek to illustrate the relation
between event and narration, and between
narration and impact, while conveying the flavor
of the times as experienced by the actors through
the medium of news.
approx. 245 p., 18 b/w ills, 35 col. ills, 220 x 280 mm,
ISBN 978-1-912554-88-1
Hardback: € 125 / $157.00 / £107.00
Series: The Medici Archive Project, vol. 7
Forthcoming
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