Sébastien Clerbois is Assistant Professor of History of Art at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Martina Droth is Head of Research and Curator of Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art, USA.
List of Colour Plates
p. vii
List of Figures
p. xiii
Acknowledgements
p. xvii
Introduction
p. xix
The Cult of Materials
p. 1
The Privilege of Bronze: Modern Perception of Classical Materials
p. 17
A Whiter Shade of Pale: Relative and Absolute White in Roman Sculpture and Architecture
p. 31
The Late Gothic Clay Sculpture of Bavaria
p. 63
Matter Without Qualities? Wax in Giacomo VivioÆs Discorso of 1590
p. 91
Twisting Marble: Observations on the Figura Serpentinata and its Applications
p. 121
Coloured Stones, Sculpted Objects: Subjects for Sculpture
p. 153
Shifting Materials, Shifting Values? Contemporary Responses to the Materials of Eighteenth-Century Sculpture
p. 171
Nineteenth-Century Sculpteurs and Mouleurs: Developments in Theory and Practice
p. 201
The Revival of Ivory Sculpture in Belgium (1890û1910): The Material in Question
p. 231
Notes on Contributors
p. 257
Bibliography
p. 261
Index
p. 269
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