The first complete monograph of the extraordinarily inventive work of Luigi Valadier, arguably the greatest silver- and goldsmith in eighteenth-century Italy. 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 ...
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The first complete monograph of the extraordinarily inventive work of Luigi Valadier, arguably the greatest silver- and goldsmith in eighteenth-century Italy. 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. AUTHOR: Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios is an internationally recognized art historian. In 1997 he was awarded the Legion of Honour. He has authored many books on Italian and French decorative arts, including catalogues for the Louvre, the Prado, the Quirinal, and the Vatican Museums. He taught art history at the University of Bologna and has lectured at numerous American museums, among them, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Getty Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as in England, France, Spain, and Italy. SELLING POINTS: . The first complete monograph on Luigi Valadier and the only comprehensive publication on Valadier in English . Provides an indispensible resource for future scholarship and is a must-have for collectors, dealers and scholars . Highlights fifty works produced by the Valadier workshop and comparative objects, designs and transcripts 368 colour images
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Add this copy of Luigi Valadier to cart. $166.00, fair condition, Sold by Burnt_Biscuit_Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newnan, GA, UNITED STATES, published 2018 by GILES.
Add this copy of Luigi Valadier to cart. $178.50, very good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2018 by The Frick Collection.
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VG (Boards have light edgewear/scuffing/smudging; interior is clean; binding is solid. ). VG-(DJ is edgeworn with light scuffing/smudging) Black boards with gilt lettering; black DJ with color illustration and black, yellow and white lettering; 544 pp.; richly illustrated. "Of the many artists who flourished in Rome during the eighteenth century, the silversmith Luigi Valadier (1726-1785) was particularly admired by popes, royalty, and aristocrats across Europe. Luigi Valadier: Splendor in Eighteenth-Century Rome, co-curated by Alvar González-Palacios and Xavier F. Salomon, will bring together more than sixty extradordinary works by the renowned silversmith in celebration of his unsurpassed technical expertise and avant-garde aesthetic."--WorldCat.
Add this copy of Luigi Valadier to cart. $258.00, like new condition, Sold by Great Expectations Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Staten Island, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2018 by The Frick Collection / D. Giles Limited.
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As New in As New jacket. Book. Folio-over 12-15" tall. Large format hardcover, folio size volume bound in black boards boldly lettered in gold, in publisher's pictorial dust-jacket. 544 pages. Includes: Chronology; Appendices; Bibliography; and Index. Introduction by Xavier F. Salomon. Profusely illustrated throughout with hundreds of color photographs. First edition. "This catalog is published on the occasion of the exhibition Luigi Valadier: Splendor in 18th-Century Rome, on view at the Frick Collection from October 30, 2018, to January 20th, 2019". An important figure in eighteenth-century Italian decorative arts, Luigi Valadier (1726-1785). He was a talented draftsman, designer, goldsmith, silversmith, and bronze founder, using precious stones as well as enamel, wood and glass, to create whimsical and elegant works of art for noble clients, which included aristocrats and Popes. A pristine, unmarked and like new copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket. For other than domestic standard orders, please contact us before ordering. A very large and heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage, calculated as close to actual cost as possible.
