Forging Authenticity

Giovanni Bastianini and the Neo-Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century Florence

by Anita Fiderer Moskowitz

Book cover: Forging Authenticity

Extent: 190 pages

Publisher: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki

Subjects: Art & Art History, Italian Studies, Nineteenth-Century Studies

Series: Arte e archeologia. Studi e documenti

Series volume number: 32

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(March 2013)

ISBN: 9788822261717

Price: $96.00

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Giovanni Bastianini, arguably the most gifted Florentine imitator of Italian Renaissance sculpture during the 19th century, became the subject of controversy that continues to this day. While exploring the dichotomy between his pseudo-Renaissance and his contemporary ‘period’ style, Moskowitz places him firmly within the economic, political and cultural context of the Risorgimento. Both Europeans and Americans, eager to imbibe the atmosphere of a lost Golden Age, formed a ready market that encouraged the production of neo-Renaissance art.

  • By (author) Anita Fiderer Moskowitz