Playing with Fire : European Terracotta Models, 1740 to 1840
Playing with Fire : European Terracotta Models, 1740 to 1840
- ISBN 13:
9780300101904
- ISBN 10:
0300101902
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 01/11/2004
- Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Summary
The Neoclassical period in Europe produced a host of gifted sculptors of whom it has sometimes been remarked that their clay models exhibit more spirit than their finished marbles. Sketches and models of terracotta (clay that has been baked for greater longevity) are much like drawings in offering extraordinary insights into the creative process. A pan-European practice, modeling was centered in Rome, site of the collections of antiquities that were the chief inspiration of artists.