Product Description: This book is an ambitious work that surveys the development of a major sculptural medium in Italy across four centuries. It is the first work of its kind to consider the varieties of fired clay sculpture, especially in the context of the sculptural process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The art of sculpture in Baroque Italy reached unprecedented heights of technical perfection and emotional intensity. This book offers a view of this rich and varied period, ranging from the exuberance of Gianlorenzo Bernini's "Apollo and Daphne" and Nicola Salvi's ever-popular Trevi Fountain to the restraint and simplicity of Alessandro Algardi's "St Philip Neri"...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A comprehensive handbook exploring the career of the architect who transformed the building design and construction of the Western world.

Product Description: Jacopo Sansovino was the leading sculptor and architect of 16th-century Venice. His position and abilities enabled him to reshape Venetian sculpture, and his influence remained dominant long after his death. Boucher begins by discussing Sansovino's career chronologically and thematically...read more