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The Craftsman Revealed: Adriaen de Vries, Sculptor in Bronze

The Craftsman Revealed: Adriaen de Vries, Sculptor in Bronze

$60.00 at The Getty Museum.

Jane Bassett With contributions by Peggy Fogelman, David A. Scott, and Ronald C. Schmidtling II 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…