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Alfred Gotthold Meyer, Canova (Bielefeld-Leipzig, Velhagen & Klasing 1898), introduzione e traduzione in italiano a cura di Alexander Auf der Heyde, …
2014
Translation, comment and introduction to Alfred Gotthold Meyer's illustrated monograph "Canova" (Bielefeld-Leipzig 1898). This edition includes furthermore indexes and a critical catalogue of all graphic and photographical sources used for the autotypes.
Artisti, "artistucoli" e "buoni lavoranti": Francesco Carradori e la razionalizzazione dei processi operativi nell’«Istruzione elementare per gli stu…
2022
Francesco Carradori's treatise «Istruzione elementare per gli studiosi della scultura» (1802) codifies the organization and working process within a sculpture workshop in such an exemplary manner that it is an indispensable source for understanding the marble industry in the 19th century. The author analyses Carradori's text both through its Renaissance and Baroque sources (Vasari, Cellini, Boselli) and through encyclopaedic repertories (Baldinucci, Félibien, de Jaucourt, Falconet, Levesque) and then proposes a comparison with the similar attempt by the Prussian sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow, whose essay «Die Werkstätte des Bildhauers» (1802) similarly narrates the work processes, but u…