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Canova, Johann Gottfried Schadow e l'ambiente berlinese (con un'appendice di lettere inedite di Schadow a Canova)
2017
This article investigates J.G. Schadow's relevance as a portraitist and as a sculptor of funerary monuments. In the appendix are published Schadow's letters to Canova, documents that help to contextualize Canova's relations to the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts.
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…