Italian Renaissance ceramics from the Howard I. and Janet H. Stein collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art
By: Wendy M. Watson.
Contributors: Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Publisher: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Stein, Howard I. -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.; Stein, Janet H. -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.; Philadelphia Museum of Art -- Exhibitions.; Majolica, Italian -- Exhibitions.; Majolica, Renaissance -- Italy -- Exhibitions.; Majolica -- Private collections -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Exhibitions.; Majolica -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: "The Philadelphia Museum of Art is the fortunate beneficiary of Howard I. and Janet H. Stein's important collection of Italian Renaissance ceramics. This handsome book features the Stein Collection and brings it together, for the first time, with related pieces belonging to the Museum. More than ninety objects, painted in vibrant colors that have survived half a millennium with undiminished brilliance, are reproduced in color and in black and white.

Together they represent the various shapes, ornamentation, ambitious compositions, and complex narratives characteristic of a distinguished selection of ceramics from Renaissance Italy." "The history of these objects unfolds in the text by specialist Wendy M. Watson. Included is an original essay by Dean Walker on collecting maiolica in the United States, and a detailed scholarly checklist."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Dec. 7, 2001-Apr. 28, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-221) and index.