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Vulcan's forge in Venus' City : the story of bronze in Venice, 1350-1650 / Victoria Avery.
Fine Arts Library NK7952.V38 A94 2011
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Avery, Victoria.
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Bronzes, Italian--Italy--Venice.
- Bronzes, Italian.
- Bronzes, Renaissance--Italy--Venice.
- Bronzes, Renaissance.
- Bronze sculpture, Italian--Italy--Venice.
- Bronze sculpture, Italian.
- Bronze sculpture, Renaissance--Italy--Venice.
- Bronze sculpture, Renaissance.
- Italy--Venice.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 496 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- In English; some text in Italian or Latin.
- Contents:
- The significance of bronze
- State control of the bronze industry
- The state bronze foundries
- The independent bronze foundries
- The employment of state gun-founders
- The employment of independent founders
- Bells
- Large functional bronzes
- Large bronze sculpture
- Small bronze sculpture and artefacts
- Illustrations
- Corpus of documents.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-484) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0197264964
- 9780197264966
- OCLC:
- 733232062
- Publisher Number:
- 99954678236
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