Il Bresciano

This monograph is a testament to the work of Charles Avery, who has put Il Bresciano on the map as a leading Italian Renaissance sculptor… Avery has established an impressively substantial oeuvre for Bresciano. – David Ekserdjian * The Art Newspaper *
Bien illustré, il fournit donc tout le matériel actuellement disponible pour connaître un artiste qui méritait assurément d’être tiré de l’oubli où dorment encore presque tous les bronziers de ce temps. – Bertrand Jestaz * le Bulletin Monumental *
Charles Avery has been on the trail of Il Bresciano for decades and … he makes the case for setting the sculptor alongside more well-known masters of bronze in 16th century Venice. * Apollo *
This excellent monograph is a major contribution to our understanding of Venetian Renaissance sculpture, eloquently demonstrating that, in his best works, he was a gifted and fluent craftsman. – Jeremy Warren * The Burlington Magazine *

Charles Avery is a specialist on European sculpture, particularly Italian, French, English and Flemish. A graduate of Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute of Art, he later obtained a doctorate from Cambridge. He is a Cavaliere of the Order of Merit of Italy, and has been a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a Trustee of the British-Italian Society.

He was Deputy Keeper of Sculpture at the Victoria & Albert Museum for twelve years, then a Director of Christie’s for a decade: since 1990 he has been an independent historian, writer and lecturer. His published works include Giambologna: The Complete Sculpture; Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes in the Frick Art Museum; Donatello: An Introduction; David Le Marchand (1674-1726): ‘An Ingenious Man for Carving in Ivory’; Bernini, Genius of the Baroque; The Triumph of Motion: Francesco Bertos (1678-1741); A School of Dolphins and Joseph de Levis & Company: Renaissance Bronze-founders in Verona (PWP).

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