Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum houses one of the world's largest collections of small Renaissance and Baroque bronzes, largely thanks to the generosity of Charles Drury Edward Fortnum (1820-1899). The British historian and collector was particularly fond of early Italian bronzes and ‘utensils’ - inkwells, candlesticks, saltcellars, mirrors and seals - but was less interested in sculpture from the late 1500s onwards, although he did acquire a number of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century bronzes that deserve to be better known.
This book provides an overview of the collection and an overview of the development of small bronze sculpture over a six-century period from around 1200 to 1800, most of which was produced during a shorter period from around 1450 to 1650.
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