05080nam 22005171c 450 991051147190332120200115203623.01-5013-3222-81-5013-3220-11-5013-3221-Xhttp://doi.org/10.5040/9781501332227(CKB)4100000007009618(MiAaPQ)EBC5532060(OCoLC)1098039540(UtOrBLW)bpp09262898(EXLCZ)99410000000700961820190412d2019 uy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDomenico Brucciani and the formatori of 19th-century Britain Rebecca WadeFirst edition.London New York Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2019.1 online resource (198 pages)Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily1-5013-3219-8 Includes bibliographical references and index1. Introduction: 'wandering Italians' -- 2. Object lessons -- 3. Exhibitions great and small -- 4. Death masks and dance halls -- 5. Building museum collections of plaster casts -- 6. Epilogue: casting aside1. Introduction: 'Wandering Italians' -- 2. Object Lessons -- 3. Exhibitions Great and Small -- 4. Death Masks and Dance Halls -- 5. Building Museum Collections of Plaster Casts -- 6. Epilogue: Casting Aside"Born near the Tuscan province of Lucca in 1815, Domenico Brucciani became the most important and prolific maker of plaster casts in nineteenth-century Britain. This first substantive study shows how he and his business used public exhibitions, emerging museum culture and the nationalisation of art education to monopolise the market for reproductions of classical and contemporary sculpture. 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."--Bloomsbury PublishingBorn near the Tuscan province of Lucca in 1815, Domenico Brucciani became the most important and prolific maker of plaster casts in nineteenth-century Britain. This first substantive study shows how he and his business used public exhibitions, emerging museum culture and the nationalisation of art education to monopolise the market for reproductions of classical and contemporary sculpture. 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 beyondPlaster castsHistory of art / art & design stylesArt and societyGreat BritainHistory19th centuryPlaster casts.Art and societyHistoryWade Rebecca(Rebecca J.),1067647UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910511471903321Domenico Brucciani and the formatori of 19th-century Britain2551665UNINA