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Maiolica in the Making: The Gentili/Barnabei Archive (Bibliographies & Dossiers : the Collections of the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, 4)
Maiolica in the Making The Gentili/Barnabei Archive - Bibliographies & Dossiers : the Collections of the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, 4 Author: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 celeb... more »rated ceramics--to show how it illuminates the production of maiolica.« less