Casey, Christine, 1960- author.

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

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
©2017

x, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

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.

9780300225778 (hardcover)
0300225776 (hardcover)

Plasterwork, Decorative Great Britain.
Plasterwork, Decorative Ireland.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural Europe.
Stucs décoratifs Grande-Bretagne.
Stucs décoratifs Irlande.
Décoration et ornement architecturaux Europe.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural.
Plasterwork, Decorative.
Ausstattung
Baudekoration
Stuck
Plasterwork, Decorative Europe.
Europe.
Great Britain.
Ireland.
1700-1799

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 295098
Cote: BIB 241059
Statut: Disponible