A lavish volume presenting the texts of papers given at a conference on Renaissance sculpture held at the V&A in 2010. Contents include - The eye of a connoisseur: Robert H. Smith as a collector of Renaissance bronzes; Casting Renaissance Florence: the bust of Giovanni de' Medici and indexical portraiture; Discovered in the stores: two female busts by Simone Bianco in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna; The Del Maino altarpiece in the Victoria and Albert Museum in its original context; Johan Gregor van der Schardt in Nuremberg; Wilhelm von Bode and his engagement with two bronze groups of Hercules and Antaeus; Italian Renaissance bronzes: alloy analysis, artist and interpretation; ‘Colore incarnato': Benvenuto Cellini's Ganymede and living stones; Priestly patronage in late Renaissance Venice: Antonio Gatto's cappella maggiore in San Polo; Giacomo Calderari (c.1562-1622), bell-maker and bronze-caster of Venice.  Illustrated throughout with high quality colour photographs.  Includes a bibliography.  Heavy hardback in fine dustjacket.  285 pages.  In new condition.  Cat No 5114