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Hidden Histories
Tuscany is a landscape whose cultural construction is complicated and multi-layered. It is this very complexity that this book seeks to untangle. By revealing hidden histories, we learn how food, landscape and architecture are intertwined, as well as the extent to which Italian design and contemporary consumption patterns form a legacy that draws upon the Romantic longings of a century before. In the process, this book reveals the extent to which Tuscany has been constructed by Anglos — and what has been distorted, idealized and even overlooked in the process.
Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
he revival of the bronze statuette popular in classical antiquity stands out as an enduring achievement of the Italian Renaissance. These small sculptures attest to early modern artists' technical prowess, ingenuity, and desire to emulate—or even surpass—the ancients. From the studioli, or private studies, of humanist scholars in fifteenth-century Padua to the Fifth Avenue apartments of Gilded Age collectors, viewers have delighted in the mysteries of these objects: how they were made, what they depicted, who made them, and when. This catalogue is the first systematic study of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's European Sculpture and Decorative Arts collection of Italian bronzes. The colle...
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Italian Ceramics
In 1984 the Getty Museum acquired an exceptional collection of Italian Renaissance maiolica, or tin-glazed earthenware. These often brilliantly colored objects range from an early Florentine jar with relief-blue decoration to a much later Mannerist dish with grotesque ornament. The collection was the subject of Italian Maiolica, a beautifully illustrated catalogue that the Museum published in 1988. Italian Ceramics amplifies and updates the earlier volume, including objects—some of them porcelain and terracotta—acquired during the intervening years. Among them are a pair of eighteenth-century candlesticks representing mythological scenes and a tabletop with hunting scenes; and, from the 1790s, the beautifully modeled and painted Saint Joseph with the Christ Child. Italian Ceramics contains the most recent scientific, historical, and iconographic information about the Museum’s holdings. Completely revised and expanded, this book offers a wealth of new information about the Getty Museum’s superb collection, which spans more than four centuries of Italian ceramic art.
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Ceramica in uso a Firenze fra Settecento e Ottocento. Volume II. Porcellana, Terraglia e Bucchero della Nuova Spagna – Tomo I. Saggi; Tomo II. Apparati
Il secondo volume della Ceramica in uso a Firenze fra Settecento e Ottocento tratta di porcellana, terraglia e bucchero della nuova Spagna, dopo che il primo si era occupato esclusivamente di maiolica. Prende in esame la nascita e l’avvento di un materiale prezioso che proveniva dalle mitiche Indie Orientali, la porcellana, già collezionata in Europa da numerose grandi famiglie, concentrandosi esclusivamente sulla ceramica d’uso ad esclusione delle sculture. L’aspetto più innovativo del volume sta nel fatto che si basa quasi esclusivamente sui i documenti cartacei, tutti inediti, trovati negli archivi di famiglie fiorentine e quindi permette di dare un quadro esaustivo degli acquisti...
