{"product_id":"recce-tech-book-paul-f-crickmore-9780850459081","title":"Recce Tech","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first comprehensive study of an important Italian Renaissance bronze-caster by a leading authority. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA nucleus of sculptures cast by Andrea di Alessandri, commonly called from his native city, Il Bresciano, or from his products, Andrea dai bronzi, has been identified over the centuries. His style has been described as having similarities both with the High Renaissance of Sansovino and the Mannerism of Vittoria, the two successive master-sculptors of 16th-century Venice for whom he cast major bronzes. Andrea's signed masterpiece is a \u003ci\u003ePaschal Candlestick\u003c\/i\u003e in bronze, over two metres high and with sixty or more fascinating figures, made for Sansovino's magnificent lost church of Santo Spirito in 1568 and now in Santa Maria della Salute. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe author's identification in 1996 of a pair of magnificent \u003ci\u003eFiredogs\u003c\/i\u003e with sphinx feet (which in 1568 had been recommended to Prince Francesco de'Medici in Florence), and in 2015 of an elaborate figurative bronze \u003ci\u003eEwer \u003c\/i\u003ein Verona, have been the culmination of the process of recognition. Archival research has at last revealed the span of Andrea's life as 1524\/25-1573, as well as many significant facts about his family and patronage. So the time is ripe for this comprehensive, well-illustrated, book on Il Bresciano, a new and major \u003ci\u003ebronzist \u003c\/i\u003e in the great tradition of north Italy.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49507776659729,"sku":"GOR002241367","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49638262079761,"sku":"GOR002196527","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50311621542161,"sku":"CIN0850459087G","price":9.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0850459087.jpg?v=1750786543","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/recce-tech-book-paul-f-crickmore-9780850459081","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}