New exhibition catalogue: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Hill Collection at the Frick

Jan 22, 2014

Wengraf, Patricia, Denise Allen, et al:  Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Hill Collection. Exhibition: New York, Frick Collection, 2014. 384 pages, 350 colour illustrations. Hardback. 32 x 24cms.  

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Catalogue of a superlative private collection spanning the late fifteenth to the first half of the eighteenth centuries, charting the development of bronze statuettes in Renaissance Italy and their dissemination across the artistic centres of Europe.Its holdings of works by Giambologna and his school is second only to that of the Bargello, Florence, while it represents the most important collection of Baroque bronzes by Giuseppe Piamontini. Also includes works by Alessandro Algardi, northern bronzes by Adriaen de Vries and Hubert Gerhard, and sixteenth and seventeenth-century bronzes by Barthélemy Prieur and from the circle of Ponce Jacquiot. ISBN: 9781907372636; £65

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