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

• Main Author: Casey, Christine 1960- (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
• Subjects: Γλυπτός Διάκοσμος > Μεγάλη Βρετανία; Γλυπτός Διάκοσμος > Ιρλανδία; Διακόσμηση, Αρχιτεκτονική > Ευρώπη

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...