Fabbri e ferri
Subtitle: Italia, XII-XVI secolo
By: Paola Elena Boccalatte
Series: BAR international Series -- 2543; BAR international series -- 2543.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford, England
Language: ita
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781407311630
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Art metal-work; History; Church decoration and ornament
Description: "This study outlines the history of the art of ironwork in Italy during the Middle Ages, examining the principal personalities involved, documents and significant episodes. Scientific studies that examine artistic ironwork in Italy are scarce and yet there are ample collections of documents on the arts, in the form of photographic portfolios and manuals, compiled in the late nineteenth century and the first three decades of the twentieth. The first part of this study examines the background, quantifying the legacy of still extant ironwork, and analysing its future in terms of protection, study, imitation, reproduction, reuse and dispersal.Understanding the technical similarities between the processes generally used in the workshops of jewellery-makers and blacksmiths, and attempting to distinguish between original mediaeval works and copies has meant dealing with the problem of techniques, a subject that is examined in some notes on the installation, assembly, decoration, colouring and interpretation of the precepts expounded in the treatises. The main area of focus is on those types of works which are dealt with in greater depth in archive documents, which essentially means monumental ironwork and thus primarily gates and railings. Light is then shed on another series of works - caskets and chests - which appear in large quantities in collections and museums and on those that are still in situ, such as locks and door bolts. The chronological limits of this study are not clear-cut, but the focus is mainly on the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The initial date has had to be pushed back to include Romanesque works."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text in Italian with English abstract.
Table of contents: title: Assenze e presenze. Copie e riproduzioni nelle Alpi occidentali ; Due serrature da cassone ; Due picchiotti ; La fotografia ; Incuria, conflitti, riuso ; I tripodi ; Tra dispersioni e tutela ; Collezionismo e musei ; Questione di gusto e di decoro.; title: Le tecniche. Strumenti ; Messa in opera ; Rifinitura e decorazione ; Cromia e metalli preziosi ; Stagnatura ; Pelle e tessuto ; Assemblaggio.; title: Alpi occidentali. Ferronnerie monumentale del XII e XIII secolo ; Una griglia romanica ; La fontana "del melograno" di Issogne ; Serrurerie in Valle d'Aosta ; Serrurerie nelle Valli di Susa e della Durance.; title: Opere e artisti in Toscana tra XIV e XV secolo. Conte di Lello e Giacomo di Conte ; Giovanni e Ristoro ; Lotino di Toro e Lotino di Ristoro ; Andrea di Sano ; Bertino di Pietro ; Petruccio di Betto e Francesco di Petruccio ; Jacopo della Quercia e Nicolò di Paolo ; Giacomo di Giovanni di Vita e Giovanni di Giacomo ; Luca di Giacomo ; Giovanni di Paolo ; Ambrogio di Giovanni e Agostino di Ambrogio ; Matteo di Ugolino, Giovanni di Michele e Gismondo di Graziano.; title: Catalogo delle opere firmate.