European sculpture, 1401900, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The ninety-two selected examples are diverse in media (marble, bronze, wood, terracotta, and ivory) and size - ranging from a tiny oil lamp fantastically conceived and decorated by the Renaissance bronze sculptor Riccio to Antonio Canova's eight-foot-high Perseus with the Head of Medusa, executed in the heroic Neoclassical style. Incorporating information from the latest scholarly research and recent conservation studies, sculpture specialist Ian Wardropper discusses the history and significance of the highlighted works, each of which is reproduced with glorious new photography
Print Book, English, ©2011
Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Distributed by Yale University Press, New York, New Haven, ©2011
Catalogs
xii, 292 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm.
9781588394279, 9780300175899, 1588394271, 0300175892
1004787311
"Highlights of the collection."