Renaissance Sculpture and its Classical sources

Hugo Fitzpatrick
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2013
BA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Italy
Period: 15th and 16th Century

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This study will tie together, through the use of specific antique sculptural prototypes, two historical periods: the ancient and the Renaisssance. The sculpture and sculptors of the Renaissance shall be examined through four specific antique examples: ‘Laocoon and His Sons,’ ‘Apollo Belvedere’, ‘Crouching Venus’ and ‘The Equestrian Portrait of Marcus Aurelius.’ These sculptures represent a wide variety of style and technique and their Renaissance response do likewise. How are these sculptures viewed during their time, and how did that affect the Renaissance interpretation? This is a Renaissance study through the lense of classical sculpture. It is an attempt to tie two time periods together that are often said to have had a great impact on each other, but at the same time are analysed in a vacuum.

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Renaissance Sculpture and its Classical sources