Making magnificence : architects, stuccatori and the eighteenth-century interior / Christine Casey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Casey, Christine, 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plasterwork, Decorative--Great Britain.

Plasterwork, Decorative.

Plasterwork, Decorative--Ireland.

Decoration and ornament, Architectural--Europe.

Decoration and ornament, Architectural.

Physical Description:

x, 316 pages : illustrations (mostly color), maps ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Architecture and stucco decoration

Maestri dei Laghi

The stucco industry

In partibus Germaniae

England

End game: the lanfranchini brothers in Britain and Ireland.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780300225778 : HRD

0300225776 : HRD