Maiolica is a type of tin-glazed earthenware associated particularly with the Renaissance, when its colorful decoration was at its peak. It was made in Italy from the thirteenth century and is still in use today. This book provides an introduction to the history of maiolica, a glossary, and a bibliography, followed by sixty-four color illustrations and accompanying text, arranged chronologically to show some of the most characteristic styles of maiolica from about 1250 to 1920.
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'There is a quart of information contained in this pint-sized book, and the illustrations are a delight ... For a handy guide to the subject - and especially if you don't know your compendiario from your istoriato - I would heartily recommend this book.' Museum News
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Maiolica is a type of tin-glazed earthenware associated particularly with the Renaissance when its colourful decoration was at its peak, but it was made in Italy from the thirteenth century and is still in use today. This book provides an introduction to the history of maiolica, a glossary, and a bibliography, followed by sixty-four colour illustrations and accompanying text, arranged chronologically to show some of the most characteristic styles of maiolica from about 1250 to 1920.
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Some colour photos of a small selection of historic examples,
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Not a 'how to' book but contains text which accompanies a colour photo of an historic example of maiolica. It's a decent book. I wouldn't have paid a 'new retail' price for it. I bought it used and am glad I have it in my library.
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Maiolica is an Italian earthenware with an opaque white glaze containing tin-oxide. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
maiolica painters, grotesque decoration, lead glaze Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ariano Irpino, British Museum, Carmen Ravanelli Guidotti, Castel Durante, Glaisher Fund, Glaisher Bequest, Leverton Harris Bequest, Guido Donatone, Maestro Giorgio, Marcantonio Raimondi, Reitlinger Bequest, Museo Civico, Alan Caiger-Smith, Cipriano Piccolpasso, Giacomo Mancini, Giovanni Maria, Grazia Biscontini Ugolini, Marlay Bequest, New York, Alessandro Alinari, Ashmolean Museum, Bernard Rackham, Burlington Magazine, Castello Sforzesco, Costantino Baroni New!
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Maiolica is an Italian earthenware with an opaque white glaze containing tin-oxide. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
maiolica painters, grotesque decoration, lead glaze Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ariano Irpino, British Museum, Carmen Ravanelli Guidotti, Castel Durante, Glaisher Fund, Glaisher Bequest, Leverton Harris Bequest, Guido Donatone, Maestro Giorgio, Marcantonio Raimondi, Reitlinger Bequest, Museo Civico, Alan Caiger-Smith, Cipriano Piccolpasso, Giacomo Mancini, Giovanni Maria, Grazia Biscontini Ugolini, Marlay Bequest, New York, Alessandro Alinari, Ashmolean Museum, Bernard Rackham, Burlington Magazine, Castello Sforzesco, Costantino Baroni New!
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- Orlando Furioso (Oxford World's Classics) by Ludovico Ariosto on page 60, and page 66
- Orlando Furioso: A Romantic Epic: Part 1 (Penguin Classics) (Pt. 1) by Ludovico Ariosto on page 60, and page 66
- Lustre Pottery: Technique, Tradition and Innovation in Islam and the Western World by Alan Caiger-Smith on page 8, and page 36
- The Civil Wars (Penguin Classics) by Appian on page 92
- The Portrait in the Renaissance: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts by John Pope-Hennessy on page 32
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- Black Africans in Renaissance Europe by T. F. Earle on page 185
- European Ceramics by Robin Hildyard in Back Matter
- The New Maiolica: Contemporary Approaches to Color and Technique by Matthias Ostermann in Back Matter
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