Decorative arts

Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence: The Courtauld Wedding Chests

Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence: The Courtauld Wedding Chests

128 pages, paperback, 260 x 300 mm, 80 colour illustrations
PRICE: £25.00
ISBN: 9781 903470916

 

Accompanying an exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery, this catalogue explores one of the most important and historically neglected art forms of Renaissance Florence: cassoni – pairs of chests that were lavishly decorated with precious metals and elaborate paintings and were often the most expensive of a whole suite of decorative objects commissioned to celebrate marriage alliances between powerful families. Read more

Xanto: Pottery-painter, Poet, Man of the Renaissance

Xanto: Pottery-painter, Poet, Man of the Renaissance

WINNER of The Art Newspaper / AXA Exhibition Catalogue Award 2007. Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo was an intriguing artist who painted some of the most beautiful and fascinating ceramics produced in Renaissance Italy. With surfaces entirely painted with scenes from classical literature, Roman history or the Bible, his dishes were much sought after by the educated elite of his time, and continue to fascinate ceramics enthusiasts today... More

The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain OUT OF PRINT

The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain OUT OF PRINT

The remarkable collection of eighteenth-century Sèvres porcelain acquired by the Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace between c. 1802 and c. 1875 now forms a distinguished part of The Wallace Collection.It is here catalogued as a set of three volumes - Volume One: Vases, Volume Two: Tea wares, useful wares, biscuit figures and plaques, Volume Three: References, appendices and index. More

The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Furniture

The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Furniture

The Wallace Collection has the finest collection of eighteenth-century furniture outside France. Numbering over five hundred pieces, it includes furniture by the greatest Parisian cabinet makers, beginning with André-Charles Boulle and continuing through the major craftsmen of the reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI. More