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Abstract
The publication analyses the origins of neo-Renaissance taste in Britain during the early Victorian period by investigating the objets d’art collected by the prominent aristocratic couple, the 2nd Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, during their Grand Tour in Italy (1838-39). It focuses on their commissioning in Florence of copies of Renaissance statues, especially of Cellini’s Perseus and Giambologna’s Venus-Fiorenza, made by the Florentine Royal Bronze Founder Clemente Papi using ancient techniques. It then discusses the subsequent history of these objects and their importance in the formation in Britain of the idea of Florentine’s glorious ‘Renaissance’ past of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Translation of abstract (Italian)
La pubblicazione analizza le origini del gusto neo-Rinascimento in Gran Bretagna durante il primo periodo vittoriano, indagando sugli oggetti d'arte raccolti dalla coppia aristocratica di spicco, il secondo duca e la duchessa di Sutherland, durante il loro Grand Tour in Italia (1838-39). Si concentra sull’esame delle loro commissioni a Firenze di copie di statue rinascimentali, in particolare del Perseo di Cellini e della Venere-Fiorenza di Giambologna, realizzate in bronzo con l’antico metodo della fusione “a cera persa”, reintrodotto nella Firenze dell’Ottocento dal Regio Fonditore di Statue in Bronzo Clemente Papi. Viene di seguito discussa e documentata la storia e la fortuna di questi oggetti e la loro importanza nella formazione del gusto in Gran Bretagna per l’arte del glorioso passato ‘rinascimentale’ fiorentino del XV e XVI secolo.
| Document type: | Dissertation |
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| Date: | 2023 |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Henry Keazor |
| Version: | Primary publication |
| Date of thesis defense: | 4 August 2022 |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Aug 2023 16:20 |
| Faculties / Institutes: | University, Fakulty, Institute > Heidelberg, University, Institute of Art History |
| Controlled Keywords: | Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower of, Leveson-Gower, Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana, Cellini, Benvenuto / Perseus, Papi, Clemente, Giambologna / Fiorenza, Florenz, Italien, Bildungsreise, Geschichte 1838-1839, Rezeption, Großbritannien |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Grand Tour; Italy; Florence; Dukes of Sutherland; England; Renaissance; High Renaissance; Sculpture; Papi Clemente |
| Subject (classification): | Artists, Architects Museology, Art Collection, Art Museum Sculpture |
| Countries/Regions: | Italy Great Britain, Ireland |
