Baccio Bandinelli and Art at the Medici Court: A Corpus of Early Modern Sources, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 251)

by Louis A. Waldman

More than five centuries after his birth, the contradictions embodied by the Florentine sculptor Baccio Bandinelli (1493-1560) remain as mysterious as ever. Revered by contemporaries as one of the most important sculptors of his time, he was reviled by his enemies as a truculent, foul-mouthed, avaricious, sycophantic, craven humbug. But the originality & power of Bandinelli's work, & the long shadow it cast over the arts in 16th-cent. Florence & Rome,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871692511
• ISBN13: 9780871692511
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 935 Pages