Justly renowned as one of the finest printmakers of the eighteenth century, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) is best known for his etched views of Rome and its antiquities, as well as for his highly influential suite of drawings entitled Carceri, or Imaginary Prisons. Trained as an architect, Piranesi revolutionized architecture and design through his combination of decorative elements and ornamental motifs from the Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman styles; yet his work as the designer of interiors and furnishings has been largely uncelebrated until now. Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, in 2007, Piranesi as Designer features ten accessible essays and more than 300 rare illustrations that explore the far-reaching impact of Piranesi's style on three centuries of architecture and design.

Piranesi as Designer

Arts & Photography

Graves, Michael

Eisenman, Peter

Gonzàlez-Palacios, Alvar

MILLER, PETER

Rosand, David

Jarrard, Alice

De Leeuw, Ronald

Sørensen, Bent

WILTON-ELY, John.

Architecture

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

The age of Louis XVI; (Cameo)

History & Criticism

Hamlyn

Luigi Valadier (1726–1785) was an extraordinarily inventive Roman metalsmith, talented draughtsman, and maker of both table decorations and objects in gilt bronze, marble, and hard stone. His exquisite table centrepieces—produced for popes, royalty, and aristocrats, in Rome, as well as in France, England, Spain and Portugal—were considered the height of luxury in the eighteenth-century, and his fame spread far and wide. This new volume highlights fifty works produced by the Valadier workshop with comparative objects, designs and transcripts.
Lavishly illustrated, this volume is the first complete monograph on Luigi Valadier and the only comprehensive publication on Valadier in English. Shedding new light on the provenance and dating of some work, the volume further identifies the exact roles performed inside the workshop by the celebrated dynasty of craftsmen that included Luigi’s French-born father Andrea and his son Giuseppe, as well as detailing the Valadier family’s collaborations with other workshops and artists. Luigi Valadier provides an indispensable resource for future scholarship and is a must-have for collectors, dealers, and scholars.

Luigi Valadier

GILES

Sólo sombras: Silhouettes históricas, literarias y mundanas

Elba

Muebles de arte (Spanish Edition)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.L.

Il tempio del gusto: Roma e il Regno delle Due Sicilie : le arti decorative in Italia fra classicismi e barocco (I Marmi) (Italian Edition)

Longanesi

Lo scultore Filippo Tagliolini e la porcellana di Napoli: Con un catalogo delle opere (Archivi di arte antica) (Italian Edition)

Messaggerie Libri [distributor]

Founded by Alvar Gonz.lez-Palacios and Federico Zeri in March 1977, and always an international reference point for research in the art history and decorative art fields, the Antologia di Belle Arti dedicates this issue to studies on art in Rome. After Studi Romani I, published in 2004, this second volume groups together the most eminent experts from Italy, France, Germany and Spain and their important studies, representing the peak in current knowledge on the respective subjects, often completely or very little known: the marble work in the Aldobrandini chapel, cardinal Mazzarino's Sant'Andrea, Bernardo Keilhau, Venus in painting and poetry, Pierre Legros, the Giardini workshop, Mariano Rossi, Luigi Valadier's drawings, Anton von Maron, two lamps by Giuseppe Valadier, the busts of Benedetto and Camillo Pistrucci. Antologia di Belle Arti is unique in the world for its subject matter and for the great expertise and experience of its author-experts. It is indispensable for scholars, collectors

Studi Romani II: Antologa di Belle Arti

Umberto Allemandi

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