Making Magnificence Architects, Stuccatori, and the Eighteenth-Century Interior Christine Casey
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- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication date:
- 01 May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780300225778
- Imprint:
- Yale University Press
- Dimensions:
- 328 pages: 273 x 203mm
- Illustrations:
- 175 color + 50 b-w illus.
- Sales territories:
- World
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"A ravishing, erudite book … flawlessly researched and entertainingly written”—Nicky Haslam, Spectator June 2017
"Lucid and incisive […] deftly explores the relationship between stucco decoration and the architecture it served, as well as the creative relationship between architects and stuccatori." —Jeremy Musson, The Art Newspaper July/August 2017
"Magnificence indeed: this is one of the most sumptuous books of architectural history in recent years."—John Martin Robinson, Country Life 19 July 2017
“This splendid volume immerses us in a critical but overlooked episode in the history of Baroque and Rococo art.”—Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Burlington
"This is a book for which there has long been a crying need, and Christine Casey has risen to the challenge magnificently." – Alastair Laing, Furniture History Society Newsletter
“This is a magnificent book which fully justifies its title.” – Malcolm Airs, Context
“Brilliantly illuminating book manages the rare feat of seeming equally at home in complex stylistic, technical or iconographic analysis while being keenly attuned to the human details of migrant craftsmen’s lives.”—William Laffan, World of Interiors
"A ravishing, erudite book … flawlessly researched and entertainingly written”—Nicky Haslam, Spectator June 2017
"Lucid and incisive […] deftly explores the relationship between stucco decoration and the architecture it served, as well as the creative relationship between architects and stuccatori." —Jeremy Musson, The Art Newspaper July/August 2017
"Magnificence indeed: this is one of the most sumptuous books of architectural history in recent years."—John Martin Robinson, Country Life 19 July 2017
“This splendid volume immerses us in a critical but overlooked episode in the history of Baroque and Rococo art.”—Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Burlington
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