CARVINS, CAST AND COLLECTORS

This volume brings together new research by some of the world's leading experts, exploring the artistic production and cultural cont ext of Renaissance sculpture from Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise to the small bronzes of Giambologna and his followers. The essays cov er a range of sculptural materials and forms to cast fresh light on the artists, their creative and collaborative processes, and tho se who commissioned, owned and responded to their work.