The sculptor Adriaen de Vries (1556-1626) spent much of his life working for the most discerning royal courts of the age, including that of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. A master of composition and technique, De Vries was relatively unknown until the J. Paul Getty Museum's groundbreaking 1999 exhibition "Adriaen de Vries: Imperial Sculptor," which firmly established the artist's reputation and afforded a rare opportunity to study in depth a large group of bronzes.
This heavily illustrated volume presents the results of the technical study of twenty-five bronzes from the...