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Item Number: 113849
Title: LORENZO BARTOLINI : Beauty and Truth in Marble
Author: Fallett, Franca ; Silvestra Bietoletti ; Annarita Caputo
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788809767331
Description: Firenze: Giunti, 2011. 32cm., pbk., 384pp. with numerous color plates. English text. Exhibition held at Galleria dell'Accademia, Firenze. Summary: The Accademia Gallery of Florence has organised the first major retrospective devoted to Lorenzo Bartolini (1777-1850), an artist whose work played a central role in the development of nineteenth-century sculpture in Italy, Europe and the United States. Taking its cue from the extraordinary collection of plaster casts housed in the atmospheric Gipsoteca in the Accademia Gallery, the aim of the exhibition is to render due merit to the exceptional quality of his production and cast light on the extraordinary richness of his artistic interests. These hinge upon the central themes of nineteenth-century sensitivity, such as sentiment, memory, and ethical and civic values. The exhibition is divided into three sections: the neoclassical period and the Bonaparte commissions; the consolidation of the new values of Purism and international commissions; finally, the increasingly more marked openness towards naturalistic realism, which made Bartolini not only a benchmark for contemporary artists but also a master for future generations. The works on display illustrate the most important sculptural commissions, alongside the works of decorative art that were greatly sought-after in the cosmopolitan circles which gravitated around Florence in the Restoration period, after it had become an obligatory stop on the Grand Tour. A genial portraitist, the sculptor’s services were also sought by the leading European exponents in the fields of music, literature, politics and high finance, whose portraits he executed with subtle psychological insight (Madame de Staël, Lord Byron, Franz Liszt, Gioacchino Rossini, Lord and Lady Burgheresh and members of the Demidov and Poniatowski families). As a result, the exhibition also renders a varied, vivid and moving picture of this cultivated international class. A remarkable crop of new, original or little-known additions to the catalogue will render account of developments in the research performed by a working group nourished by contributions from the international academic community. Bartolini’s stylistic evolution will be illustrated by about seventy works featuring a continuous counterpoint with the models in the Gipsoteca, offering an original comparison. Numerous important sculptures will be on view in Florence for the first time since the nineteenth century, illustrating the crucial stages in the consolidation of Bartolini’s career; these include the Napoleon I in bronze (Paris, Louvre), Napoleone-Elisa Baciocchi with her dog (Rennes, Musée des Beaux Arts), the Grape-Treader and Maria Naryškina Gourieva (Hermitage, St. Petersburg), Anne Lullin de Chateauvieux Eynard (Geneva, Palazzo Eynard) and Faith in God (Milan, Museo Poldi Pezzoli).
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