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Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture
Luchs, Alison: Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture. Exhibition: Washington, National Gallery of Art, 2009. 160 pages fully illustrated in colour and black and white. Cloth. 29.8x24.8cms. The first exhibition dedicated to Lombardo in America and featuring most of his works, including his well-known double portrait reliefs. It shows the high quality of Lombardo's craftsmanship and the attempts of him and his contemporaries to emulate in marble the quality and expression of the great Venetian painters, Bellini, Mantegna, Giorgione and Titian. The work of these sculptors went beyond altarpieces and devotional pieces branching out into mythology, poetry, history and philosophy.
The first exhibition dedicated to Lombardo in America and featuring most of his works, including his well-known double portrait reliefs. It shows the high quality of Lombardo's craftsmanship and the attempts of him and his contemporaries to emulate in marble the quality and expression of the great Venetian painters, Bellini, Mantegna, Giorgione and Titian. The work of these sculptors went beyond altarpieces and devotional pieces branching out into mythology, poetry, history and philosophy. Text in English
ITALIAN PLAQUETTES.
, Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1989., Broche, couverture d' editeur illustre en couleur, 23x28cm, 310pp, illustre en couleur et n/b. ISBN 0894681141.
Report and studies in the history of art, n? 22. Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Symposium Papers IX.
Tullio Lombardo and Ideal Portrait Sculpture in Renaissance Venice 1490-1530
Luchs, Alison: Tullio Lombardo and Ideal Portrait Sculpture in Renaissance Venice 1490-1530. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xiv, 306pp with 209 monochrome illustrations. Cloth. 26x21.5cms. A study of Tullio Lombardo's work, focussing in particular on two of his most famous works. This new study throws much light on the significance of the double portraits, placing them in their historical context.
A study of Tullio Lombardo's work, focussing in particular on two of his most famous works. This new study throws much light on the significance of the double portraits, placing them in their historical context. Text in English
Mermaids of Venice. Fantastic Sea Creatures in Venetian Renaissance Art
, Brepols, 2010 Hardback, VIII 273 p., 234 b/w ill. 44 colour ill., 220 x 275 mm, Languages: English. ISBN 9781905375455.
The arts of Renaissance Venice teem with sea monsters. Chief among these are mermaids and mermen--graceful hybrid beings human from the waist up, but with the lower body and tail of a fish, dolphin or sea serpent. Other sea hybrids--horses, bulls, panthers, even an elephant--also swim through Venetian art in finned and fish-tailed forms. Such creatures emerge from stone in the shadowy churches and the sunlit courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale, crown the wooden frame of a Giovanni Bellini altarpiece, and encircle the bronze flagpole bases in Piazza San Marco. Their gilded sugar apparitions graced banquet tables for illustrious visitors, and their descendents still glide through the canals in the form of brass seahorses set above the sides of gondolas This book focuses on the conceptions of artists who made marine hybrids as some of the most engaging inventions of the Renaissance in Venice and its subject city Padua. The chapters deal with five functional contexts: book decoration of the 1470s and 80s; tomb monuments of the 1480s and 90s; church decoration of the same years, particularly at Santa Maria dei Miracoli; centers of political activity, including civic settings in Venice and the palaces of powerful mainland employers of Venetian artists; and finally, private homes, where owners could hold small bronze sea hybrids in their hands, often as objects for use. A prologue introduces the ?heritage of monsters? from the ancient and medieval worlds, the better to show how Venetian artists adapted these to new purposes. Exploring the ways in which artists could interpret and contemporary viewers might experience these wide-ranging sea-creatures, the book brings their best images together as a source of delight. Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History(HMSAH 58)
