Bøger af Michael W. Cole

I de sidste årtier af 1800-tallet skød kunstnerkolonier op overalt i Europa, også i Norden, og i fiskerlejet Hornbæk opstod den måske første danske kunstnerkoloni, da en række malere valfartede dertil om sommeren. I samme forbindelse begyndte de deres mere systematiske rejser til fiskerlejet Arild, hvor også svenske kunstnere slog sig ned med pensler og palet.Udgivet i forbindelse med udstillingen Kunstnerkolonierne Hornbæk & Arild på Nivaagaards Malerisamling

Ambitious Form describes the transformation of Italian sculpture during the neglected half century between the death of Michelangelo and the rise of Bernini. The book follows the Florentine careers of three major sculptors--Giambologna, Bartolomeo Ammanati, and Vincenzo Danti--as they negotiated the politics of the Medici court and eyed one another's work, setting new aims for their art in the process. Only through a comparative look at Giambologna and his contemporaries, it argues, can we understand them individually--or understand the period in which they worked. Michael Cole shows how the concerns of central Italian artists changed during the last decades of the Cinquecento. Whereas their predecessors had focused on specific objects and on the particularities of materials, late sixteenth-century sculptors turned their attention to models and design. The iconic figure gave way to the pose, individualized characters to abstractions. Above all, the multiplicity of master crafts that had once divided sculptors into those who fashioned gold or bronze or stone yielded to a more unifying aspiration, as nearly every ambitious sculptor, whatever his training, strove to become an architect.