1st Edition

Sculpture Workshops as Space and Concept Creating the Portrait

Edited By Jane Fejfer, Kristine Bøggild Johannsen Copyright 2022
190 Pages 24 Color & 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 24 Color & 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 24 Color & 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the multifaceted aspects of sculptor’s workshops from the Renaissance to the early nineteenth century. Contributors take a fresh look at the sculptor’s workshop as both a physical and discursive space. By studying some of the most prominent artists’ sculptural practices, the workshop appears as a multifaced, sociable and practical space. The book creates a narrative in which... Read more

1. Introduction

Jane Fejfer and Kristine Bøggild Johannsen

2. The Absent Center: Donatello in the Workshop

Daniel Zolli

3. Ambiguous Narratives of Making. Some Questions about the Workshop Practices of Eighteenth-Century British Sculptors

Malcolm Baker

4. More than Gossip and less than Monuments. Forms of Ambition in the 1790s and early 1800s Roman Bust Head

Tomas Macotay

5. Master and Servant. Canova’s Workshop and the Formation of Sculptural Autonomy

Johannes Myssok

6. Likeness, Ideality, and Equality. On Thorvaldsen’s Portrait Busts and His Workshop Practice

Kira Kofoed

7. The Final Touch. On Thorvaldsen’s Marble Surfaces

Amalie Skovmøller

8. Female Patronages: The Unstable Beginnings of Christian Daniel Rauch as a Portrait Sculptor in Berlin, Rome and Carrara

Astrid Fendt

Biography

Jane Fejfer is Associate Professor at The Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen.

Kristine Bøggild Johannsen is Curator at the Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen.