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Baroque Sculpture in Germany and Central Europe (1600-1770)
Marjorie Trusted
- Pages: 288 p.
- Size:225 x 300 mm
- Illustrations:3 b/w, 150 col.
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2022
- € 50,00 EXCL. VAT RETAIL PRICE
- ISBN: 978-1-909400-95-5
- Hardback
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This is the first book in English devoted to German baroque sculpture.
Review(s)
“It is an outstanding achievement on the part of the author to have very largely succeeded in writing a coherent account of such a rich but complex period of sculptural history. Accessibly priced, thanks to sponsorship from the Reiner Winkler Foundation and others, it is very much to be hoped that it will encourage English-speaking audiences to become more familiar with the cultures of the German-speaking lands and to explore some brilliant and innovative sculptors, whose work really should be much better known.” (Jeremy Warren, in Church Monuments, 37, 2023, p. 164-165)
“Trusted’s book with its superb color illustrations is a most welcome schol[1]arly addition that, hopefully, will spur broader interest in German, Austrian, and Bohemian baroque and rococo sculpture.” (Jeffrey Chipps Smith, in Journal of Jesuit Studies, 10, 2023, p. 544)
BIO
Marjorie Trusted (also known as Holly Trusted), a former Senior Curator of Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, is Honorary Research fellow of the V&A, the University of Glasgow and Durham University. She has published widely in the field of sculpture.
Summary
Around 1600, a new style of sculpture started to evolve and flourish in Central Europe and in the German-speaking lands. Dramatic wood and stone figures peopled the palaces, gardens and churches of Munich, Berlin, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Vienna and Prague. These great works of art are little known outside Germany and Austria, partly because their colour and vivacity are so astoundingly different from the sculpture that was being produced in Italy, France and elsewhere in Northern Europe at that time. They are overpowering, and amongst the greatest works of art produced in Europe in the seventeenth century. This groundbreaking book explores their history and conveys their visual power.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE
Sculpture in South Germany 1600-40: Antecedents and International Currents
CHAPTER TWO
Small-Scale Sculpture and Patronage in Berlin and Vienna: 1630-1700
CHAPTER THREE
The Court of Saxony in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
CHAPTER FOUR
Munich and Bavaria in the Late Seventeenth and First Half of the Eighteenth Century
CHAPTER FIVE
The Mid-Eighteenth Century in Bavaria
CHAPTER SIX
Sculpture in Prague c. 1650-1750
CHAPTER SEVEN
Sculpture in Vienna, Gurk, Würzburg and Trier. Ceramics.
Appendix I: Biographical List of Artists
Appendix II: List of Rulers and Patrons
Bibliography
Index
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