The Florentine Revival of Late Nineteenth-Century French Sculpture

The Florentine Revival of Late Nineteenth-Century French Sculpture

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The aim of this paper is to show how French sculpture briefly resumed the impasse in which it was stuck in the middle of the nineteenth century thanks to the reliance on fifteenth-century Florentine sculpture. An analysis of the commentaries made by the critics of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, whic...

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Main Author: Vermot, Federica
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari 2021-07-01
Series:MDCCC 1800
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Nineteenth-century sculpture. Florence. Salon. Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Donatello. Giambologna. Paul Dubois. Antonin Mercié. Alexandre Falguière. Paul Mantz. Tradition. Revival. Neo-Florentine. Renaissance. Quattrocento.
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spelling doaj-e5e106d08fa14986a7067f98ff8000f42021-09-10T15:38:36ZengEdizioni Ca’ FoscariMDCCC 18002280-88412021-07-0110110.30687/MDCCC/2280-8841/2021/10/008journal_article_6176The Florentine Revival of Late Nineteenth-Century French SculptureVermot, Federica0Université de Lausanne, Suisse The aim of this paper is to show how French sculpture briefly resumed the impasse in which it was stuck in the middle of the nineteenth century thanks to the reliance on fifteenth-century Florentine sculpture. An analysis of the commentaries made by the critics of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, which was the first journal to assess and promote neo-Florentine sculptors in the 1860s and 1870s, allows to better grasp the evolution and failure of the trend, as well as the various issues that were at stake, such as originality and naturalism in sculpture. This revival provided French art with a new generation of successful sculptors and inspiring works that eventually lead to the unprecedented – and short-lived – triumph of sculpture at the Exposition Universelle of 1878. https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it4/riviste/mdccc-1800/2021/1/the-florentine-revival-of-late-nineteenth-century-/Nineteenth-century sculpture. Florence. Salon. Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Donatello. Giambologna. Paul Dubois. Antonin Mercié. Alexandre Falguière. Paul Mantz. Tradition. Revival. Neo-Florentine. Renaissance. Quattrocento.
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The Florentine Revival of Late Nineteenth-Century French Sculpture
MDCCC 1800
Nineteenth-century sculpture. Florence. Salon. Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Donatello. Giambologna. Paul Dubois. Antonin Mercié. Alexandre Falguière. Paul Mantz. Tradition. Revival. Neo-Florentine. Renaissance. Quattrocento.
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title The Florentine Revival of Late Nineteenth-Century French Sculpture
title_short The Florentine Revival of Late Nineteenth-Century French Sculpture
title_full The Florentine Revival of Late Nineteenth-Century French Sculpture
title_fullStr The Florentine Revival of Late Nineteenth-Century French Sculpture
title_full_unstemmed The Florentine Revival of Late Nineteenth-Century French Sculpture
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publisher Edizioni Ca’ Foscari
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publishDate 2021-07-01
description The aim of this paper is to show how French sculpture briefly resumed the impasse in which it was stuck in the middle of the nineteenth century thanks to the reliance on fifteenth-century Florentine sculpture. An analysis of the commentaries made by the critics of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, which was the first journal to assess and promote neo-Florentine sculptors in the 1860s and 1870s, allows to better grasp the evolution and failure of the trend, as well as the various issues that were at stake, such as originality and naturalism in sculpture. This revival provided French art with a new generation of successful sculptors and inspiring works that eventually lead to the unprecedented – and short-lived – triumph of sculpture at the Exposition Universelle of 1878.
topic Nineteenth-century sculpture. Florence. Salon. Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Donatello. Giambologna. Paul Dubois. Antonin Mercié. Alexandre Falguière. Paul Mantz. Tradition. Revival. Neo-Florentine. Renaissance. Quattrocento.
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