Earth and fire : Italian terracotta sculpture from Donatello to Canova / edited by Bruce Boucher ; with the collaboration of Peta Motture, Anthony Radcliffe, Paola D'Agostino, and Carlo Milano

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xi, 311 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. ; 30 cm. Notes; Accompanies an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 18 Nov. 2001 - 3 Feb. 2002; then the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 14 March 2002 - 7 July 2002. Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-306). Contents; Italian Renaissance terracotta : artistic revival or technological innovation? / Bruce Boucher -- Michelangelo : the master modeler / Jeannine O'Grody -- Base or noble material? : clay sculpture in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italy / Maria Giulia Barberini -- Bernini's models for the angels of the Ponte Sant'Angelo in Rome / Bruce Boucher -- Canova's work in clay / Hugh Honour -- The making of terracotta sculpture : techniques and observations / Charlotte Hubbard and Peta Motture -- Catalogue. Subjects; Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564. Bernini, Gian Lorenzo 1598-1680. Canova, Antonio 1757-1822. Donatello 1386?-1466. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, Tex.) ; Exhibitions. Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England) ; Exhibitions. Sculpture, Italian 16th century. Sculpture, Italian 17th century. Sculpture, Italian 18th century. Terracotta sculpture, Italian. Sculptors Italy. Sculpture Technique. Renaissance sculpture.