Bertoldo di Giovanni

Essays by Peter Jonathan Bell, Lorenz Böninger, Francesco Caglioti, Stefano Casciu, Ilaria Ciseri, Maria Grazia Cordua, Julia Day, Caroline Elam, Scott Nethersole, Alexander J. Noelle, Aimee Ng, Neville Rowley, Xavier F. Salomon, and Peter Stiberc
Entries by Aimee Ng, Alexander J, Noelle, Xavier f. Salomon
Conversation with James David Draper

Renaissance sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni (ca. 1440–1491) was a student of Donatello, a teacher of Michelangelo, and a favourite of Lorenzo de’ Medici “il Magnifico”, his principal patron. Bertoldo was one of the first sculptors to create statuettes in bronze. With an overview of the artist’s entire oeuvre—including The Frick Collection’s Shield Bearer, the only Bertoldo sculpture outside of Europe—this major scholarly catalogue is the most substantial text on Bertoldo ever produced. Featured are contributions from renowned international scholars who bring into focus the sculptor’s unique position at the heart of the artistic and political landscape in fifteenth-century Italy.

Author biographies

Aimee Ng is Associate Curator at The Frick Collection

Alexander J. Noelle is the 2017–19 Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellow at The Frick Collection

Xavier F. Salomon is the Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection

Table of Contents

1. Director’s Foreword
2. Preface and Acknowledgments
3. Conversation with James David Draper
4. The Life and Artwork of Bertoldo di Giovanni by Alexander J . Noelle
5. The Bronze Statuette in Fifteenth-Century Florence and Bertoldo di Giovanni by Peter Jonathan Bell
6. Bertoldo’s Place between Donatello and Michelangelo by Francesco Caglioti
7. Custode and Capo: Bertoldo di Giovanni in Lorenzo de’ Medici’s Sculpture Garden by Caroline Elam
8. Wilhelm von Bode and the Rediscovery of Bertoldo di Giovanni by Neville Rowley
9. The Indefinite Identities of Bertoldo di Giovanni’s Shield Bearers by Alexander J . Noelle
10. Battling for Meaning: Bertoldo’s Bronze Relief in the Bargello by Scott Nethersole
11. Bertoldo di Giovanni, “Outstanding Manufacturer of Medals”: Some Observations by Xavier F. Salomon
12. Beyond Bronze: Bertoldo’s Work in Other Media by Aimee Ng
13. Bertoldo, a Carver in Bronze by Julia Day
14. The Wooden St. Jerome in the Pinacoteca Comunale in Faenza: A Carved and Modeled Sculpture by Peter Stiberc
15. The Glazed Terracotta Frieze of the Medici Villa at Poggio a Caiano: Technique, Execution, Conservation, and Restoration by Stefano Casciu and Maria Grazia Cordua
16. Housing Problems of a Renaissance Artist by Lorenz Böninger
17. In the Rooms of the Princes and the Grand-Ducal Gallery: The Bronzes of Bertoldo before the Bargello by Ilaria Ciseri
18. Catalogue of the Exhibition
19. Appendix: The Life and Artwork of Bertoldo di Giovanni in Archival Documents
20. Bibliography
21. About the Authors
22. Index