Body and soul

by Andrew Butterfield

The catalogue presents great masterpieces of Italian renaissance and baroque sculpture. It was supervised by Andrew Butterfield and Fabrizio Moretti, two of the world's most representative experts of antique trade. The sculptures which the book deeply analyzes all have something in common: they combine ideality and naturalism of form with intensity and depth of expression, so that both the outer appearance and the inner life of the character represented manage to emerge. In short, not even one of these sculptures submitted to the strict academic rules which have always been influencing art...