Free Download Michael W. Cole, "Ambitious Form: Giambologna, Ammanati, and Danti in Florence"
English | ISBN: 0691147442 | 2010 | 400 pages | PDF | 462 MB
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.