Waxing eloquent. Italian portraits in Wax

Daninos, Andrea (edited by)

ISBN 10: 8889854839 / ISBN 13: 9788889854839

Published by Officina Libraria, Milano, 2012

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Mm 170x240 Condizione: new. Venice, Palazzo Fortuny, 10 march - 26 june 2012. Edited by Andrea Daninos. English Text. 160 pp., b/w ill., col. ill. and plates. Seller Inventory # 137002

Bibliographic Details

Title: Waxing eloquent. Italian portraits in Wax

Publisher: Officina Libraria, Milano

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis:

This catalogue analyses a field of art history that only recently has been given renewed attention with the translation in French (1997), English (2008) and Italian (2011) of Julius von Schlosser's 'History of Portraiture in Wax', originally published in German a century ago. The exhibit and the catalogue will present all life-size figures in wax present in Italy starting with the death masks in wax of the Venetian dogi (XVIII century), which were used as funeral effigies. 'The Book of Miracles', a XVII century manuscript illustrated in watercolours, documents the use of wax statues as ex-voto in churches. The heads of saints (12 Franciscan saints from the church of the Redentore in Venice) and criminals (8 manufactured in the late XIX century in Turin) will constitute another section. But the main section is dedicated to portraiture in wax and will see the presence of 7 busts and 2 full-size portraits of children, all from the XVIII and XIX century.

About the Author:

Andrea Daninos has studied ceroplastic - the art of modelling in wax - for many years. He recently held a course on the subject at the University of Milan and he has edited and annotated the Italian translation of Julius von Schlosser's History of Portraiture in Wax (Milan: Officina Libraria 2011), the seminal book on the argument. Guido Guerzoni teaches Cultural Heritage and Art Markets at the Universita Lugi Bocconi in Milan. His research interests are focused on the cultural and arts markets and his latest book has been translated into English in 2011 (Apollo and Vulcan: The Art Markets in Italy, 1400-1700, Michigan State University Press). Giovanni Ricci is professor of Modern History at the University of Ferrara. He is the author of several books on urban history, the real and perceived presence of the Turks in Europe, marginal strata of society and social mobility, and funereal rites and their political use. Emanuele Trevi is a literary critic and writer. He writes on a number of daily newspapers and has collaborated with RAI-3 Radio, one of Italy's national radio stations. He lives in Rome.