Making magnificence
architects, stuccatori and the eighteenth-century interior
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Word Count
79,000 words, Guess
Page Count
316 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100300225776
- ISBN-139780300225778
- Library of Congress Control Number2016021180
- OCLC Control Number950083744
- Better World Books9780300225778
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL26929496M
Classifications
- DDC721/.0446
- LCCNA3690 .C37 2017
- LCCNA3690.C37 2017
Description
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 decor. Their names are not widely known--Giuseppi Artari (c.1690-1771), Giovanni Battista Bagutti (1681-1755), and Francesco Vassalli (1701-1771) 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 Reale in Turin, Upper Belvedere 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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