Problems in the History of Venetian Sculpture and their Solution

Employing a range of methodologies, Anne Markham Schulz tackles problems of long-standing in the history of Venetian Renaissance sculpture; her solutions have often changed the narrative of its development and an estimation of its worth. Through the stylistic and iconographic examination of sculptures, some previously unknown, together with published and unpublished documents and sources, and matched by abundant illustrations made especially for the purpose of debate, she resolves questions of attribution, function, meaning, and chronology of works by established sculptors, such as Pietro, Tullio, and Antonio Lombardo, and introduces to the history of Venetian art notable sculptors whose traces disappeared centuries ago, such as Antonio Bonvicino, Niccolò di Giovanni Fiorentino, Bartolomeo Terrandi, and Simone Bianco. Her articles, which have provided fixed points in the historiography of Venetian Renaissance sculpture, are here republished and brought up to date with postscripts by the author.

VOLUME ONE

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Matteo Ceriana

Preface

Chapter I “Antonio Bonvicino and Venetian Crucifixes of the Early Quattrocento”, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, XLVIII, 2004, pp. 292-332

Chapter 2 “Two Florentine Sculptors at Venice: Andrea Pisano and Niccolò Lamberti”, Arte veneta, LXVIII, 2011 (2013), pp. 34-55 (published as “Due scultori fiorentini a Venezia: Andrea Pisano e Niccolò Lamberti”)

Chapter 3 “A Venetian Sculpture by Lombard Sculptors: Filippo Solari, Andrea da Carona, and the Franco Altar for San Pietro di Castello”, Burlington Magazine, CXXXIX, 1997, pp. 836-848, and correction, ibid., CXL, 1998, p. 160

Chapter 4 “Further Thoughts on Niccolò di Giovanni Fiorentino in Dalmatia and Italy” in Quattrocento Adriatico, ed. Charles Dempsey (Acts of a conference at the Johns Hopkins Center for Renaissance Studies, Villa Spelman, Florence. 16-17 June 1994), Bologna, 1996, pp. 143-162

Chapter 5 “The Reliefs of the Façade of San Zaccaria” in La facciata della chiesa di San Zaccaria a Venezia: percorsi di storia e conservazione, eds. Bernard Aikema and Emanuela Zucchetta, Saonara (PD), 2010, pp. 26-41 (published as “I rilievi della facciata di San Zaccaria”)

Chapter 6 “The Roselli Tomb in the Santo and the Youthful Work of Pietro Lombardo at Padua and Venice”, Il Santo, n.s., L, 2010, fasc. 2-3, pp. 557-573 (published as “La tomba Roselli nel Santo e l’opera giovanile di Pietro Lombardo a Padova e a Venezia”)

Chapter 7 “The Forge of Vulcan by Antonio Lombardo: Its Style, Date, Site, and Meaning” in Tullio Lombardo, scultore e architetto nella cultura veneziana del rinascimento, ed. Matteo Ceriana (Acts of a conference, Venice, Fondazione Cini. 4-6 Apr. 2006), Verona, 2007, pp. 320-344 (published as “La Fucina di Vulcano di Antonio Lombardo: lo stile, la data, il sito e il significato”)

VOLUME TWO

Chapter 8 “Four New Works by Antonio Minello”, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, XXXI, 1987, pp. 291-326

Chapter 9 “A Newly Discovered Work by Giammaria Mosca, called ‘Padovano’”, Burlington Magazine, CXLVI, 2004, pp. 656-664

Chapter 10 “Bartolomeo di Francesco Bergamasco” in Interpretazioni veneziane: studi di storia dell’arte in onore di Michelangelo Muraro, ed. David Rosand, Venice, 1984, pp. 257-274

Chapter 11 “The Cenotaph of Alvise Trevisan in Santi Giovanni e Paolo” in Renaissance Studies in Honor of Craig Hugh Smyth, eds. Andrew Murrogh et al., Florence, 1985, II, pp. 413-427

Chapter 12 “Simone Bianco, the Grimani Collection of Antiquities and Other Unexpected Findings”, Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien, ser. 3, XVII-XVIII, 2015/2016, pp. 26-43

Chapter 13 “Life and Works of Pietro Paoletti, Historian of Venetian Art”, Archivio veneto, ser. 6, VIII, 2024 (2015), pp. 91-122

Index