Marc Bormand is the conservator of the Louvre sculpture department, responsible for the Italian sculpture of Moyen Âge and the Renaissance. Co-commissaire, among others, of the exhibition Desiderio da Settignano - La découverte de la grace dans la sculpture de la Renaissance (Paris, Louvre, 2006-2007; Florence, Bargello, 2007; Washington, National Gallery of Art, 2007). In 2013, the exhibition TLa primavera del Rinascimento. La scultura e le arti a Firenze 1400-1460 was organised with Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi at the Bargello National Museum in Florence and, between 2013 and 2014, at the Louvre in Paris. Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi descendant of the historical Florentine Strozzi family, was the director of the national museum of Bargello in Florence in 2014. She is an ordinary academic of the art of design. These scientific publications are well-known, both in the domain of the Renaissance and in the art of the 20th century. She currently collaborates with the Louvre Museum. Monica Preti is currently the scientific director of Pistoia Museums. Historian of modern art, she worked on the history of the collection and on the relationship between art and literature in the Renaissance era. Francesca Tasso is currently director of the civic museums of Castello Sforzesco in Milan. She studied in particular Late Gothic and Renaissance art and the formation of the collections of the Milan museums. The most recent publications include: Vetri contemporanei al Castello Sforzesco. La collezione Bellini-Pezzoli (with Claudio Salsi, Marsilio, 2017), Leonardo Da Vinci. La sala delle Asse del Castello Sforzesco (with Michela Palazzo, Silvana, 2017).

• Introduction1.Stéphane Toussaint, L’immortalità scolpita. Francesco Sassetti tra Fonzio, Ficino e Warburg2.Ulrich Pfisterer, Ozio e divertimento. Sculture nello studiolo, 1350-1550 circa3.Philippe Morel, La figure de la ménade dans la sculpture florentine, d’Agostino di Duccio à Bertoldo di Giovanni (1450-1480)4.Patricia Rubin, Michelangelo’s Monkey and the Melancholy of Death5.Gabriella Mazzon, The Rhetoric of Obedience in the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance: The Sacrifice of Isaac6.Ludmila Acone, «Il virtuoso esercitio»: Danser ou le pouvoir de l'imagination7.Paola Ventrone, Faith and Emotion: Paradises and Angelic Flights in Italian Renaissance Theatre8.Anne Lepoittevin, Varallo : du théâtre sacré aux origines du Sacro MonteBibliographyIndex of names

Marc Bormand is the conservator of the Louvre sculpture department, responsible for the Italian sculpture of Moyen Âge and the Renaissance. Co-commissaire, among others, of the exhibition Desiderio da Settignano - La découverte de la grace dans la sculpture de la Renaissance (Paris, Louvre, 2006-2007; Florence, Bargello, 2007; Washington, National Gallery of Art, 2007). In 2013, the exhibition TLa primavera del Rinascimento. La scultura e le arti a Firenze 1400-1460 was organised with Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi at the Bargello National Museum in Florence and, between 2013 and 2014, at the Louvre in Paris. Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi descendant of the historical Florentine Strozzi family, was the director of the national museum of Bargello in Florence in 2014. She is an ordinary academic of the art of design. These scientific publications are well-known, both in the domain of the Renaissance and in the art of the 20th century. She currently collaborates with the Louvre Museum. Monica Preti is currently the scientific director of Pistoia Museums. Historian of modern art, she worked on the history of the collection and on the relationship between art and literature in the Renaissance era. Francesca Tasso is currently director of the civic museums of Castello Sforzesco in Milan. She studied in particular Late Gothic and Renaissance art and the formation of the collections of the Milan museums. The most recent publications include: Vetri contemporanei al Castello Sforzesco. La collezione Bellini-Pezzoli (with Claudio Salsi, Marsilio, 2017), Leonardo Da Vinci. La sala delle Asse del Castello Sforzesco (with Michela Palazzo, Silvana, 2017).

• Introduction1.Stéphane Toussaint, L’immortalità scolpita. Francesco Sassetti tra Fonzio, Ficino e Warburg2.Ulrich Pfisterer, Ozio e divertimento. Sculture nello studiolo, 1350-1550 circa3.Philippe Morel, La figure de la ménade dans la sculpture florentine, d’Agostino di Duccio à Bertoldo di Giovanni (1450-1480)4.Patricia Rubin, Michelangelo’s Monkey and the Melancholy of Death5.Gabriella Mazzon, The Rhetoric of Obedience in the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance: The Sacrifice of Isaac6.Ludmila Acone, «Il virtuoso esercitio»: Danser ou le pouvoir de l'imagination7.Paola Ventrone, Faith and Emotion: Paradises and Angelic Flights in Italian Renaissance Theatre8.Anne Lepoittevin, Varallo : du théâtre sacré aux origines du Sacro MonteBibliographyIndex of names

Marc Bormand is the conservator of the Louvre sculpture department, responsible for the Italian sculpture of Moyen Âge and the Renaissance. Co-commissaire, among others, of the exhibition Desiderio da Settignano - La découverte de la grace dans la sculpture de la Renaissance (Paris, Louvre, 2006-2007; Florence, Bargello, 2007; Washington, National Gallery of Art, 2007). In 2013, the exhibition TLa primavera del Rinascimento. La scultura e le arti a Firenze 1400-1460 was organised with Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi at the Bargello National Museum in Florence and, between 2013 and 2014, at the Louvre in Paris. Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi descendant of the historical Florentine Strozzi family, was the director of the national museum of Bargello in Florence in 2014. She is an ordinary academic of the art of design. These scientific publications are well-known, both in the domain of the Renaissance and in the art of the 20th century. She currently collaborates with the Louvre Museum. Monica Preti is currently the scientific director of Pistoia Museums. Historian of modern art, she worked on the history of the collection and on the relationship between art and literature in the Renaissance era. Francesca Tasso is currently director of the civic museums of Castello Sforzesco in Milan. She studied in particular Late Gothic and Renaissance art and the formation of the collections of the Milan museums. The most recent publications include: Vetri contemporanei al Castello Sforzesco. La collezione Bellini-Pezzoli (with Claudio Salsi, Marsilio, 2017), Leonardo Da Vinci. La sala delle Asse del Castello Sforzesco (with Michela Palazzo, Silvana, 2017).

• Introduction1.Stéphane Toussaint, L’immortalità scolpita. Francesco Sassetti tra Fonzio, Ficino e Warburg2.Ulrich Pfisterer, Ozio e divertimento. Sculture nello studiolo, 1350-1550 circa3.Philippe Morel, La figure de la ménade dans la sculpture florentine, d’Agostino di Duccio à Bertoldo di Giovanni (1450-1480)4.Patricia Rubin, Michelangelo’s Monkey and the Melancholy of Death5.Gabriella Mazzon, The Rhetoric of Obedience in the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance: The Sacrifice of Isaac6.Ludmila Acone, «Il virtuoso esercitio»: Danser ou le pouvoir de l'imagination7.Paola Ventrone, Faith and Emotion: Paradises and Angelic Flights in Italian Renaissance Theatre8.Anne Lepoittevin, Varallo : du théâtre sacré aux origines du Sacro MonteBibliographyIndex of names