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Domenico Brucciani and the Formatori of 19th-Century Britain
By Rebecca Wade
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Description
Based in Covent Garden in London, Brucciani built a network of fellow Italian émigré formatori and collaborated with other makers of facsimiles-including Elkington the electrotype manufacturers, Copeland the makers of Parian ware and Benjamin Cheverton with his sculpture reducing machine-to bring sculpture into the spaces of learning and leisure for as broad a public as possible.
Brucciani's plaster casts survive in collections from North America to New Zealand, but the extraordinary breadth of his practice-making death masks of the famous and infamous, producing pioneering casts of anatomical, botanical and fossil specimens and decorating dance halls and theatres across Britain-is revealed here for the first time. By making unprecedented use of the nineteenth-century periodical press and dispersed archival sources, Domenico Brucciani and the Formatori of Nineteenth-Century Britain establishes the significance of Brucciani's sculptural practice to the visual and material cultures of Victorian Britain and beyond.
Product details
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Edition:
- 1
- Number of Pages:
- 216
- Release Date:
- 2024-02-22
- Publication Date:
- 2024-02-22
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury 3PL
- Languages:
- Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 1350435783
- ISBN13:
- 9781350435780
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
- Weight:
- 321 g
- Height:
- 152 cm
- Width:
- 229 cm
- Thickness:
- 12 cm
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