Das Taufbecken von Siena : Geschichte, Restaurierung und Wiederaufstellung eines Gipsmodells = The baptismal font from Siena : history, restoration and reinstallation of a plaster cast model / für die Staatliche Museen zu Berlin herausgegeben von Neville Rowley und Veronika Tocha ; mit einem Fotoessay von Fabian Fröhlich ; und Beiträgen von Aurelia Badde [and four others] ; übersetzt von Eckart Marchand.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rowley, Neville, editor, writer of added commentary.

Tocha, Veronika, editor, writer of added commentary.

Fröhlich, Fabian, photographer (expression).

Badde, Aurelia, writer of added commentary.

Marchand, Eckart, translator.

Bode-Museum, host institution, issuing body.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Battistero di San Giovanni (Siena, Italy)--Exhibitions.

Battistero di San Giovanni (Siena, Italy).

Sculpture, Renaissance--Conservation and restoration--Italy--Siena--Exhibitions.

Sculpture, Renaissance.

Fonts--Conservation and restoration--Italy--Siena--Exhibitions.

Fonts.

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, plan ; 28 cm

Edition:

1. Auflage.

Other Title:

Baptismal font from Siena : history, restoration and reinstallation of a plaster cast model

Place of Publication:

[Berlin] : Staatliche Museen zu Berlin ; Regensburg : Schnell & Steiner, 2024.

Language Note:

Parallel texts in German and English.

Summary:

"The baptismal font in the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Siena is a masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance. It was created between 1416 and 1434 by six sculptors, including Donatello. His putto was once part of the baptistery, but had been missing in Siena for centuries before it was acquired by Wilhelm Bode for the sculpture collection in 1902. It was Bode who initiated the moulding of over a hundred Renaissance sculptures in Italy around 25 years earlier. Since then, the Sculpture Collection has had a collection of casts, which has now been forgotten, while the historical moulds and models are still in use in the plaster moulding shop to this day.In photographs by Fabian Fröhlich and five text contributions by Aurelia Badde, Eckart Marchand, Ricardo Mendonça, Neville Rowley and Veronika Tocha, the plaster model of the baptismal font is comprehensively honoured and further contextualised in this book. Not only does it trace the journey of discovery during the restoration of the model, it also reconstructs the historical context of the original mould of the baptismal font and its history of reproduction. The putto is embedded in the history of art and collecting and the significance of plaster casts is traced back to the time of Donatello"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prussia's moulding campaigns in Italy in the 1870s and 1880s in context

Multiplied object biography

Between original, assembly and moulding model

Bode's Putto

Plaster casts in the work of Donatello.

Notes:

On the occasion of an exhibition held at Bode-Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, from October 20, 2024.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-185).

Local Notes:

On the occasion of an exhibition held at Bode-Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, from October 20, 2024.

ISBN:

9783795439750

3795439752

OCLC:

1473251389

Publisher Number:

9783795439750