Making magnificence
Subtitle: architects, stuccatori and the eighteenth-century interior
By: Christine Casey
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780300225778
Subjects: Architectural Decoration and ornament; Decorative Plasterwork
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-307) and index.
Table of contents: title: Architecture and stucco decoration; title: Maestri dei Laghi; title: The stucco industry; title: In partibus Germaniae; title: England; title: End game: the Lanfranchini brothers in England and Ireland.