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Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe

2008Best.-Nr. 220093New York and New Haven CT: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press 2008. Cloth xvi 412 pages illustrations chiefly colour; 32 cm. Near fine. Firm binding clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket with light edgewear protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. A massive coffee-table book. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "In the royal and princely courts of Europe artworks made of multicolored semiprecious stones were passionately coveted objects. Known as pietre dure or hardstones this type of artistic expression includes 'paintings in stone' which were composed of intricately cut separate pieces that were made into magnificent tabetops cabinets and wall decorations. Other works included vessels and ornaments carved with virtuosic skill from a single piece of rare and brilliant lapis lazuli chalcedony jasper or similarly prized substance; exquisite objects such as boxes clocks and jewelry; and portraits of nobles sculpted in variously colored stones. Derived from ancient Roman decorative stonework the art of pietre dure was developed in Renaissance Florence where the manufacture of such objects was enthusiastically sponsored by Medici princes. Ideally suited for ostentatious display the works sent an unmistakable message of wealth and political might that was understood in centers of power everywhere. From Italy the medium spread across Europeto Prague Madrid Naples Paris and later Saint Petersburg. Precious and fragile pietre dure objects are rarely brought together in large numbers. This richly illustrated catalogue contains more than 150 masterworks from across Europe dating from five centuries including almost every artistic use of semiprecious stone during this time as well as some of the finest examples of the medium. Eight essays by European and American experts discuss the individualized development of pietre dure in every European region the latest developments in scholarship the interrelationships between art and dynastic politics and between cultures and a variety of techniques used to produce these luxurious masterworks." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Director's Foreword; Acknowledgments; The Role of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure by Cristina Acidini; Lenders to the Exhibition; Curators of the Exhibition; Contributors to the Catalogue; Note to the Reader; Mysterious and Prized: Hardstones in Human History before the Renaissance by Wolfram Koeppe; Roman Inlay and Florentine Mosaics: The New Art of Pietre Dure by Annamaria Giusti; The Castrucci and the Miseroni: Prague Florence Milan by Rudolf Distelberger; Pierre fines: The Manufacture of Hardstone Works at the Gobelins under Louis XIV by Florian Knothe; Pietre Dure North of the Alps by Wolfram Koeppe; Sculpture and Mosaic in Pietre Dure by Ian Wardropper; An Enduring Seductiveness: The Reclaiming of Pietre Dure in the Eighteenth Century by Wolfram Koeppe and Florian Knothe; The Opificio delle Pietre Dure: Half a Millennium by Cristina Acidini. CATALOGUE: Origins; Italy through the Seventeenth Century; Northern Europe Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Italy and Spain Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; The Reclaiming of Pietre Dure; Sweden and Russia Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; Pietre Dure as an Artistic Medium and note on the making of pietre dure; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; Photograph and Copyright Credits. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Folio. Collectible. Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press hardcover

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