The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy

Amy R. Bloch is associate professor of art history at the State University of New York, Albany and author of Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise: Humanism, History, and Artistic Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance (Cambridge, 2016). Her work has been supported by fellowships and grants from the Villa I Tatti (the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies), the Renaissance Society of America, and the College Art Association. Daniel M. Zolli is a scholar of early modern art and an assistant professor at The Pennsylvania State University. In 2015, he co-curated Sculpture in the Age of Donatello at the Museum of Biblical Art for which the accompanying catalogue was a finalist for the Alfred H. Barr Award of the College Art Association.

Introduction – making and unmaking sculpture in fifteenth-century Italy Amy R. Bloch and Daniel M. Zolli; Part I. Surface Effects: 1. The color white in fifteenth-century Tuscan sculpture Una Roman D'Elia; 2. The colors of monochrome sculpture Frank Fehrenbach; 3. New light on Luca della Robbia's glazes Catherine Kupiec; Part II. Sculptural Bodies: 4. Donatello, Alberti, and the free-standing statue in fifteenth-century Florence Peter Jonathan Bell; 5. Francesco di Valdambrino's wood sculpture at the high altar of Siena Cathedral Ashley Elston; 6. Sculptural transformations in Quattrocento Italy Megan Holmes; Part III. Sculptural Norms, Made and Unmade: 7. The body, space, and narrative in Central and Northern Italian sculpture David J. Drogin; 8. Rethinking style in fifteenth-century Italian sculpture Robert Glass; 9. Bellano's invention at the Santo Sarah Blake McHam; Part IV. Sculpture as Performance: 10. Sculpture and sacrifice Adrian Randolph; 11. Illuminated sculpture and visionary experience at the Cardinal of Portugal Chapel in Florence Morgan Ng; 12. Tullio Lombardo, Antonio Rizzo, and sculptural audacity in Renaissance Venice Lorenzo G. Buonanno; Part V. Sculpture in the Expanded Field: 13. Stucco as substrate and surface in Quattrocento Florence (and Beyond) Yvonne Elet; 14. The punch marks on Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise: an intersection of economy and ritual Lauren Jacobi; 15. Relief effects in Donatello and Mantegna Henrike Lange; 16. Candelabra-columns and the Lombard architecture of sculptural assemblage Michael J. Waters; Part VI. Sculpture and history: 17. Jacopo della Quercia's Fonte Gaia Amy R. Bloch; 18. Virgil's forge Daniel M. Zolli; 19. Quattrocento perspectives on the historical value of sculpture Joost Keizer.