Making Magnificence: Architects, Stuccatori, and the Eighteenth-Century Interior

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This book tells the remarkable story of the craftsmen of Ticino, in Italian-speaking Switzerland, who took their prodigious skills as specialist decorative plasterworkers all through Northern Europe within the 18th century, adorning classical architecture with their wealthy and fluent décor.  Their names aren’t widely recognized – Giuseppi Artari (c.1690–1771), Giovanni Battista Bagutti (1681–1755), and Francesco Vassalli (1701–1771) are a couple of – but their work reworked the interiors of magnificent buildings in Italy, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Britain, and Ireland.  Some of the interiors highlighted on this deeply researched, beautifully illustrated volume are Palazzo Reale in Turin, Higher Belvedere in Vienna, St. Martin within the Fields in London, the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford, Houghton Hall in Norfolk, and Carton House in Ireland.
 

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