Parution : Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio, "Shipping Sculptures from Early Modern Italy. The Mechanics, Costs, Risks, and Rewards", Turnhout, Brepols, 2025

Shipping Sculptures from Early Modern Italy: The Mechanics, Costs, Risks, and Rewards focuses on enormous amounts of sculptures moved from Italy to Spain from ca. 1500-1750. An analysis of an important body of unpublished archival documentation regarding the practical issues involved in making and transporting sculpture, provide the basis for this study of the development of technologies, infrastructure, and labor organization necessary to make such challenging transports of moving sculpture...