Ambitious Form
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Ambitious Form

Giambologna, Ammanati, and Danti in Florence

Michael W. Cole

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Ambitious Form

Giambologna, Ammanati, and Danti in Florence

Michael W. Cole

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Ambitious Form describes the transformation of Italian sculpture during the neglected half century between the death of Michelangelo and the rise of Bernini. The book follows the Florentine careers of three major sculptors--Giambologna, Bartolomeo Ammanati, and Vincenzo Danti--as they negotiated the politics of the Medici court and eyed one another's work, setting new aims for their art in the process. Only through a comparative look at Giambologna and his contemporaries, it argues, can we understand them individually--or understand the period in which they worked. Michael Cole shows how the concerns of central Italian artists changed during the last decades of the Cinquecento. Whereas their predecessors had focused on specific objects and on the particularities of materials, late sixteenth-century sculptors turned their attention to models and design. The iconic figure gave way to the pose, individualized characters to abstractions. Above all, the multiplicity of master crafts that had once divided sculptors into those who fashioned gold or bronze or stone yielded to a more unifying aspiration, as nearly every ambitious sculptor, whatever his training, strove to become an architect.

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APA 6 Citation

Cole, M. (2022). Ambitious Form ([edition unavailable]). Princeton University Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/3455970 (Original work published 2022)

Chicago Citation

Cole, Michael. (2022) 2022. Ambitious Form. [Edition unavailable]. Princeton University Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/3455970.

Harvard Citation

Cole, M. (2022) Ambitious Form. [edition unavailable]. Princeton University Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/3455970 (Accessed: 18 June 2024).

MLA 7 Citation

Cole, Michael. Ambitious Form. [edition unavailable]. Princeton University Press, 2022. Web. 18 June 2024.