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Hardstone carving, pietre dureThere are 2 items

  • Giusti (Annamaria)

    Florence, Giunti, 1989
    (29 cm), 280 pp., illustrations (some in colour). 79 catalogue entries. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Catalogue for an exhibition celebrating the 400th anniversary of the founding of the court workshops in the Uffizi, now extant as the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, an institute for restoration. A series of essays by Annamaria Giusti, Alvar González-Palacios, Detlef Heikamp, and Carlo Cresti preface catalogue entries on hardstone objects and pietre dure furniture. Additional essays on related workshops such as Rodolf II’s at Prague and Louis XIV’s at the Gobelins introduce further entries. ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy.
  • Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (Washington, DC)
    Brown (Clifford Malcolm), editor

    Hanover, NH & London, University Press of New England, 1997
    (29 cm), 320 pp., illustrations (most in colour). Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - Contains 17 papers on the history of engraved gems (intaglios and cameos), from ancient Greece through the nineteenth century, including contributions from David Jaffé (Reproducing and reading gems in Rubens’ circle), Gertrud Seidmann (An eighteenth-century collector as patron: the 4th Duke of Marlborough and the London engravers). Proceedings of the symposium “Engraved Gems…”, sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, 18-19 November 1994. ¶ Fine, unmarked copy.
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