Item Number: 143506 Title: Making Magnificence : Architects, Stuccatori, and the Eighteenth-Century Interior Author: Casey, Christine Price: Not Available ISBN: 9780300225778 Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. 26cm., hardcover, 320pp., 175 color illus. Summary: This book tells the remarkable story of the craftsmen of Ticino, in Italian-speaking Switzerland, who took their prodigious skills as specialist decorative plasterworkers throughout Northern Europe in the 18th century, adorning classical architecture with their rich and fluent décor. Their names are not widely known – Giuseppi Artari (1699–1769), Giovanni Battista Bagutti (1742–1823), and Francesco Vassalli (1690–1763) are a few – but their work transformed the interiors of magnificent buildings in Italy, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Britain, and Ireland. Among the interiors highlighted in this deeply researched, beautifully illustrated volume are Palazzo Stupinigi in Turin, Schönbrun Palace in Vienna, St. Martin in the Fields in London, the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford, Houghton Hall in Norfolk, and Carton House in Ireland.
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