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Die Bronzen des Massimiliano Soldani Benzi (1656–1740)

Repräsentationsstrategien des europäischen Adels um 1700
  • Carina A.E. Weißmann
Language: German
Published/Copyright: 2022
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The striving for a royal crown, the ennobling of a clever financial policy, or the immortalizing of glorious victories—all of this is reflected in the grandeur of the bronzes by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi. Individuals who owned the Venus Medici or other full-size copies of ancient sculptures created by the Florentine medallion-maker around 1700, like the Liechtensteins or the Marlboroughs, thus acquired not only a technically brilliant masterpiece, but also a privilege, since they came from one of the most important collections of ancient works of its time, that of the Medici. Soldani, who trained in Rome and Paris at the behest of Grand Duke Cosimo III, produced refined new creations of the originals from antiquity, which could only be obtained through diplomatic networks, long before the art market of the eighteenth century made copies of ancient sculptures a mass product.

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Carina A:E: Weißmann, freelance author and museum curator, Bad Kreuznach

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„This remarkable and beautiful book, soundly scholarly, but clearly a labour of love, provides a worthy model for further research on Soldani’s extensive surviving oeuvre.“ (Charles Avery in: The Burlington Magazine, 2024/11)

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    EINLEITUNG

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    MASSIMILIANO SOLDANI BENZI

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    GROßHERZOG COSIMO III. DE’ MEDICI – PROTETTORE E PADRE

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    FÜRST JOHANN ADAM ANDREAS I. VON LIECHTENSTEIN – AUFTRAGGEBER PAR EXCELLENCE

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    JOHN CHURCHILL, ERSTER HERZOG VON MARLBOROUGH – ANTIKEN FÜR EINEN IMPERATOR

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    SCHLUSSBETRACHTUNGEN

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    Abbildungsverzeichnis

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eBook published on:
August 8, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9783110786972
Hardcover published on:
August 22, 2022
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110693652
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
20
Main content:
501
Coloured Illustrations:
313
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110786972
eBook ISBN: 9783110786972
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110693652
Keywords for this book
Bronze; representation; art market; diplomacy.
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art historians, historians
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