Messerschmidt and Modernity

Author: Antonia Boström

Publisher: Getty Publications, Los Angeles, 2012

Selective publications and contributions

“Primordial forms” essay on the work of wood artist, Ernst Gamperl, for monograph on Ernst Gamperl to accompany exhibitions at the Bayersiche Nationalmuseum, Munich, and at Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London, 2025 (forthcoming)

“Thomas Schütte: genealogies and expression,” essay for catalogue to accompany the exhibition “Thomas Schütte. Genealogies," curated by Camille Morineau and Jean-Marie Gallais, Venice, Punta della Dogana, 2025 (forthcoming)

Introduction, Emily Young: Pareidolia in Stone, exhibition catalogue, Richard Green Gallery, London, 2023, pp. 8-9

“Copper and tin: proposals for the bronze alloy used for the portrait heads of Michelangelo”, in Michelangelo: l’effigie in bronzo di Daniele da Volterra. Atti della giornata di studi della mostra (Galleria dell’ Accademia, Florence, 15 February–19 June 2022), ed. Cecilie Hollberg, Florence: 2022, pp. 52–61

Adi’s homage to the gold ewer, in Place to Place, London: 2021

“Kinship and Art. The patronage of the Soderini and Ridolfi families in Florence and Rome”, in Marks of Identity: New Perspectives on Italian Sixteenth–Century Sculpture, ed. Dimitrios Zikos, Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2012, pp. 82–10

Eye for the Sensual: Selections from the Resnick Collection, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles Museum of Art. 2010. Catalogue entries

The Color of Life Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present, eds. Roberta Panzanelli, with Eike Schmidt and Kenneth Lapatin, Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008. Entry on Charles Cordier

J. Paul Getty Museum. Handbook of the Collections, Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2007

“Ludovico Lombardo and the Taste for the all’ Antica Bust in Mid–Sixteenth–Century Rome and Florence,” in Large Bronzes in the Renaissance (Studies in the History of Art, 64), ed. Peta Motture, Washington, D.C.:  National Gallery of Art, 2003, pp. 155–179

Medici, Michelangelo, and Late Renaissance Art in Florence, 1537–1631, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Contributor for entries to exhibition catalogue (Italian ed.: L’ombra del genio. Michelangelo e l‘arte a Firenze, 1537–1631) 

Oxford Companion to Western Art, 2nd edition, ed. Hugh Brigstocke, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.  Advisor and contributor

Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts: Masters of Impressionism and Modern Art, exhibition catalogue, Japan (various venues), 2001. Entries on Dalou and Renoir 

"Daniele da Volterra, Ruberto Strozzi and the equestrian monument to Henry II of France", in The Sculpted Object 1400–1700, eds. S. Currie and Peta Motture,  Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997, pp. 201–20  

“Academical Heads” in Portraits of Royal Academy Members in Prints and Drawings, Photographs, Medals and Sculpture 1734–1995, exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy: London, 1995.  Contributor for entries on medals

Cliveden, Buckinghamshire, London: The National Trust, 1994. Chapter on “Sculpture,” and catalogue of garden sculpture

Antonio Tempesta, Henry II of France on horseback, c. 1591-1608, etching

Articles

“Giovanni Maria Benzoni, Randolph Rogers and the Collecting of Sculpture in Nineteenth–Century Detroit,” The Sculpture Journal, vol. IV, 2000, pp. 151–5

“The Florentine sculptor Raffaello Peri,” Burlington Magazine, CXL, April 1998, pp. 263–64

“The acquisition of Flemish landscapes for Italy on the Antwerp art market,” Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, vol. 48, 1997, pp. 9–21

“A new addition to Zanobi Lastricati: Fiorenza or the Venus Anadyomene; the fluidity of iconography,” The Sculpture Journal, vol. I, April, 1997, pp. 1–6 https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/sj.1997.1.1.2

“Daniele da Volterra and the equestrian monument to Henry II of France,” Burlington Magazine, CXXXVII, December, 1995, pp. 809–20.

“Zanobi Lastricati: a newly discovered document,” Burlington Magazine, CXXXVI, December, 1994, pp. 835–36

“Sculpture at Cliveden,” Apollo Magazine, CXXXIV, August, 1991, pp. 94–103.

“A bronze group of the Rape of Proserpina at Cliveden House in Buckinghamshire,”Burlington Magazine, CXXXII, December, 1990, pp. 829–40 https://www.jstor.org/stable/88450

“Sculpture at Cliveden,” Cliveden Newsletter, 1988