The Performance of Sculpture in Renaissance Venice

By Lorenzo G Buonanno

This study reveals the broad material, devotional, and cultural implications of sculpture in Renaissance Venice.

Examining a wide range of sources--the era's art-theoretical and devotional literature, guidebooks and travel diaries, and artworks in various media--Lorenzo Buonanno recovers the sculptural values permeating a city most famous for its painting. The book traces the interconnected phenomena of audience response, display and thematization of sculptural bravura, and artistic self-fashioning.

It will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance history, early modern art and architecture, material culture, and Italian studies.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367335662
• ISBN13: 9780367335663
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.8"