中图分类法:	J334(546) 版次：
著者:	Motture, Peta,
题名:	The culture of bronze : [ making and meaning in Italian Renaissance sculpture /] / ,
载体形态:	287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
内容提要:	"Being both costly and luxurious, bronze arguably carries the most significance of all the sculptural materials. In the Renaissance, the use of bronze embodied power, authority and eternity and emulated the classical past. Yet it was one of the easiest materials to recycle, especially when the need for artillery was often pressing. Nonetheless the Italian Renaissance was a golden age for the production of sculpture in bronze, such as Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, Verrocchio's Colleoni monument or Cellini's Perseus.0Bronze is generally defined as an alloy of copper and tin, but can contain zinc, lead and other elements. The term.
主题词:	Bronze sculpture, Renaissance Italy.
主题词:	Bronze sculpture, Italian.