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...

Table of Contents:

• Architecture and stucco decoration
• Maestri dei Laghi
• The stucco industry
• In partibus Germaniae
• England
• End game: the Lanfranchini brothers in England and Ireland.