Maiolica in the Making: The Gentili/Barnabei Archive

by Catherine Hess

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, potters from the Italian village of Castelli dAbruzzo created wares that constitute a final, supremely pictorial phase of the tin-glazed earthenware art know as maiolica. Here, Catharine Hess documents the Gentili/Barabei archive--a recently acquired collection of 276 documents relating to these celebrated ceramics--to show how it illuminates the production of maiolica.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892365005
• ISBN13: 9780892365005
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 9.9"