Shipping sculptures from early modern Italy : the mechanics, costs, risks, and rewards / Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Di Dio, Kelley Helmstutler, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sculpture--Transportation--Italy--History.

Sculpture.

Sculpture--Transportation--Spain--History.

Sculpture, Spanish--Italian influences.

Sculpture, Spanish.

Sculpture, Spanish--16th century.

Sculpture, Spanish--17th century.

Expatriate sculptors--Spain.

Expatriate sculptors.

Sculptors--Italy.

Sculptors.

Spain--History--House of Austria, 1516-1700.

Spain.

Italy--History--1559-1789.

Italy.

Physical Description:

232 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Turnhout [Belgium] : Harvey Miller Publishers, [2024]

Summary:

"Shipping Sculptures from Early Modern Italy: The Mechanics, Costs, Risks, and Rewards focuses on enormous amounts of sculptures moved from Italy to Spain from ca. 1500-1750. An analysis of an important body of unpublished archival documentation regarding the practical issues involved in making and transporting sculpture, provide the basis for this study of the development of technologies, infrastructure, and labor organization necessary to make such challenging transports of moving sculptures by land and sea possible. Artists, patrons, and agents had the eventual movement to a destination at the center of decision making when new sculptures were commissioned to send. Sending antiquities or second-hand works required even more planning and care. Divided into a series of case studies of major sculptures, Shipping Sculptures offers a new approach to the study of cross-cultural artistic exchange, state gifts, collecting and patronage, by examining the practical details of object movement over challenging geographies."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

A Note about Currency

Chapter 1: From Origin to Destination

Chapter 2: Churches

Chapter 3: Residences

Chapter 4: Public Sites

Conclusion: Hidden Costs and Hidden Histories

Appendix to Chapter 2

Appendix to Chapter 3

Appendix to Chapter 4.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-227) and index.

ISBN:

1915487455

9781915487452

OCLC:

1468972493