The Fonte Gaia from Renaissance to modern times : a history of construction, preservation, and reconstruction in Siena / Chiara E. Scappini and David Boffa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scappini, Chiara E., author.

Boffa, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fonte Gaia (Siena, Italy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file rdaft

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:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Siena: Water and Power

Water

Early Medieval Italian Fountains

Sienese Fountains

2. The First Fonte Gaia

The Contract for the First Fountain

Decoration of the First Fountain

Sources of Water for the Fountain

The History of the First Fountain

Jacopo della Quercia's Fonte Gaia and Its Chronology

Identifying the Fonte Gaia's Parapet Sculptures

Acca Larentia and Rhea Silvia

Jacopo della Quercia's Parapet Statues

Mother Earth and Gaia

Why the Fonte Gaia's Parapet Sculptures Were Changed to Refer to Gaia, and Other Precedents for Its Iconography

The Influence of Jacopo della Quercia's Fonte Gaia in the Fifteenth Century

3. A History of Disrepair

Why the Fonte Gaia Was Damaged In Situ

Jacopo della Quercia's Choice of Materials

Civic Events and Festivals: Bull Hunts, Markets, Buffalo Races, Palio

The Removal of the Fountain

Milanesi's Crusade to Save the Fonte Gaia

Sarrocchi Carves a Replacement for della Quercia's Fonte Gaia

The Fate of della Quercia's Sculptures after Removal from the Piazza del Campo

The Relationship between Brum's Drawings and Sarrocchi's Sculptures

Cleaning della Quercia's Fountain Pieces

New Discoveries: What the Restoration Uncovered

4. The Nineteenth-Century Fonte Gaia

The Life of the Sculptor

Sarrocchi in Antonio Manetti's Studio

Italian Purism

The Artistic Climate at the Academy: Lorenzo Bartolini and Giovanni Dupre

Sarrocchi's Early Career

Giuseppe Partini

Sarrocchi's Fonte Gaia Commission and Reception

Faithful Copy or Purist Revision? A Comparison of Sarrocchi's Fonte Gaia and della Quercia's Original Monument

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Feb 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-485-6687-8

1-04-077888-7

1-003-70615-0

1-04-078404-6

90-485-3527-1

9781003706151

OCLC:

1020029488