Il Bresciano : Bronze-Caster of Renaissance Venice (Hardcover)

Chronology for Andrea Bresciano 1 Who was Andrea dai Bronzi, Il Bresciano? 2 Santo Spirito in Isola, a lost treasure house of High Renaissance art 3 The Paschal Candlestick, its iconography and six altar candlesticks 4 Other Paschal Candlesticks: Bari; Rovigo; Santo Stefano, Venice 5 The Soranzo-Bute Firedogs: Robert Adam and Luton Park 6 The recognition and reconstitution of the Firedogs - a detective story 7 The bronze stand for the Cross of St Theodore; two drawings; Pietro Rota; the ex-Heim-Sackler Crucifix; two lost sanctuary lamps 8 The Calzolari Ewer 9 Door knockers, attributed to Bresciano 10 Michelangelo and a Mannerist masquerade 11 The riddle of the sphinxes 12 Figure sculpture Selective Catalogue of Works Documentary Appendix End-notes Bibliography Image credits Index