Maiolica in the Making: The Gentili/Barnabei Archive

Maiolica in the Making: The Gentili/Barnabei Archive
ISBN-10
0892365005
ISBN-13
9780892365005
Category
Art
Pages
187
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Getty Publications
Author
Catherine Hess

Description

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, potters from the Italian village of Castelli dAbruzzo created wares that constitute a final, supremely pictorial phase of the tin-glazed earthenware art know as maiolica. Here, Catharine Hess documents the Gentili/Barabei archive--a recently acquired collection of 276 documents relating to these celebrated ceramics--to show how it illuminates the production of maiolica.

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