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The Fonte Gaia from Renaissance to modern times : a history of construction, preservation, and reconstruction in Siena / Chiara E. Scappini and David Boffa.
Fine Arts Library NA9415.S5 S33 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scappini, Chiara E., author.
- Boffa, David, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fonte Gaia (Siena, Italy).
- Fountains--Italy--History.
- Fountains.
- Fountains--Conservation and restoration--Italy--History.
- Fountains, Renaissance--Italy.
- Fountains, Renaissance.
- Sculpture, Renaissance--Italy.
- Sculpture, Renaissance.
- Fountains--Conservation and restoration.
- History.
- Italy.
- Physical Description:
- 248 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- The Fonte Gaia from Renaissance to Modern Times' examines the history of Siena's famous public fountain, from its fifteenth-century origins to its eventual replacement by a copy in the nineteenth century (and the modern fate of both). The book explores how both the Risorgimento and the Symbolist movements have shaped our perceptions of the Italian Renaissance, as the Quattrocento was filtered through the lens of contemporary art and politics.
- Contents:
- 1 Siena: Water and Power 25
- Water 31
- Early Medieval Italian Fountains 35
- Sienese Fountains 47
- 2 The First Fonte Gaia 51
- The Contract for the First Fountain 53
- Decoration of the First Fountain 55
- Sources of Water for the Fountain 63
- The History of the First Fountain 64
- Jacopo della Quercia's Fonte Gaia and Its Chronology 69
- Identifying the Fonte Gaia's Parapet Sculptures 72
- Acca Larentia and Rhea Silvia 75
- Jacopo della Quercia's Parapet Statues 85
- Mother Earth and Gaia 86
- Why the Fonte Gaia's Parapet Sculptures Were Changed to Refer to Gaia, and Other Precedents for Its Iconography 90
- The Influence of Jacopo della Quercia's Fonte Gaia in the Fifteenth Century 102
- 3 A History of Disrepair 109
- Why the Fonte Gaia Was Damaged In Situ 109
- Jacopo della Quercia's Choice of Materials 109
- Civic Events and Festivals: Bull Hunts, Markets, Buffalo Races, Palio 114
- The Removal of the Fountain 124
- Milanesi's Crusade to Save the Fonte Gaia 127
- Sarrocchi Carves a Replacement for della Quercia's Fonte Gaia 133
- The Fate of della Quercia's Sculptures after Removal from the Piazza del Campo 136
- The Relationship between Bruni's Drawings and Sarrocchi's Sculptures 144
- Cleaning della Quercia's Fountain Pieces 153
- New Discoveries: What the Restoration Uncovered 156
- 4 The Nineteenth-Century Fonte Gaia 163
- The Life of the Sculptor 165
- Sarrocchi in Antonio Manetti's Studio 165
- Italian Purism 169
- The Artistic Climate at the Academy: Lorenzo Bartolini and Giovanni Duprè 172
- Sarrocchi's Early Career 175
- Giuseppe Partini 184
- Sarrocchi's Fonte Gaia Commission and Reception 187
- Faithful Copy or Purist Revision? A Comparison of Sarrocchi's Fonte Gaia and della Quercia's Original Monument 190
- Conclusion 210.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 946298459X
- 9789462984592
- OCLC:
- 991188169
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