TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scappini, Chiara E.
AU  - Boffa, David
TI  - The Fonte Gaia from Renaissance to Modern Times: a History of Construction, Preservation, and Reconstruction in Siena
SN  - 9789462984592
AV  - NA9415.S5 S33 2017
U1  - 940.2 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
KW  - Sculpture, Renaissance
KW  - Italy
KW  - Fonte Gaia
KW  - Fountains
KW  - Conservation and restoration
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - Europe History
KW  - Western
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - Modern
KW  - General
KW  - Siena
N1  - Include index (245-248p.); Include bibliography (229-243p.); Illustrations; 
Abbreviations; 
Acknowledgments; 
Preface; 
1. Siena: Water and Power; 
Water; 
Early Medieval Italian Fountains; 
Sienese Fountains; 

2. The First Fonte Gaia; 
The Contract for the First Fountain; 
Decoration of the First Fountain; 
Sources of Water for the Fountain; 
The History of the First Fountain; 
Jacopo della Quercia’s Fonte Gaia and Its Chronology; 
Identifying the Fonte Gaia’s Parapet Sculptures; 
Acca Larentia and Rhea Silvia; 
Jacopo della Querciaa’s Parapet Statues; 
Mother Earth and Gaia 
Why the Fonte Gaia’s Parapet Sculptures Were Changed to 
Refer to Gaia, and Other Precedents for Its Iconography
The Influence of Jacopo della Quercia’s Fonte Gaia in the 
Fifteenth Century; 

3. A History of Disrepair; 
Why the Fonte Gaia Was Damaged In Situ; 
Jacopo della Quercia’s Choice of Materials; 
Civic Events and Festivals: Bull Hunts, Markets, Buffalo Races, Palio; 
The Removal of the Fountain; 
Milanesi’s Crusade to Save the Fonte Gaia; 
Sarrocchi Carves a Replacement for della Quercia’s Fonte Gaia; 
The Fate of della Quercia’s Sculptures after Removal from the Piazza del Campo 
The Relationship between Bruni’s Drawings and Sarrocchis Sculptures
Cleaning della Quercia’s Fountain Pieces; 
New Discoveries: What the Restoration Uncovered; 

4. The Nineteenth-Century Fonte Gaia; 
The Life of the Sculptor; 
Sarrocchi’s in Antonio Manetti’s Studio; 
Italian Purism; 
The Artistic Climate at the Academy: Lorenzo Bartolini and Giovanni Dupré;  
Sarrocchi’s Early Career; 
Giuseppe Partini; 
Sarrocchi’s Fonte Gaia: Commission and Reception; 
Faithful Copy or Purist Revision? A Comparison of Sarrocchi’s 
Fonte Gaia and della Quercia’s Original Monument; 
Conclusion 
Appendix I: Preliminary Research on the Condition of the Fonte Gaia
Appendix II: Dismantling and Cleaning the Fonte Gaia; 
Documents; 
Bibliography; 
Index
N2  - The Fonte Gaia from Renaissance to Modern Times' examines the history of Siena's famous public fountain, from its fifteenth-century origins to its eventual replacement by a copy in the nineteenth century (and the modern fate of both). The book explores how both the Risorgimento and the Symbolist movements have shaped our perceptions of the Italian Renaissance, as the Quattrocento was filtered through the lens of contemporary art and politics.
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