Download or read book Maiolica Before Raphael written by Elisa Paola Sani and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present exhibition and this...volume refocus attention on the beautiful maiolica of the age of Pisanello, Botticelli and Perugino. It allows visitors and readers to enjoy late medieval and early Renaissance maiolica for its own qualities and not just...as 'the art of the precursors'."--Preface, p. 7.

Download or read book Maiolica written by Charles Drury Edward Fortnum and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Maiolica: A Historical Treatise on the Glazed and Enamelled Earthenwares of Italy, With Marks and Monograms, Also Some Notice of the Persian, Damascus, Rhodian, and Hispano-Moresque Wares Of such is that numerous class of potteries, among which will be found the elegant productions of Greece and of Italy in Etruscan and Roman times; but with these we are not now occupied 2. In Egypt and the East the use of a distinct glaze of the Italians), covering the otherwise more porous substance of the vessel, appears to have been known, and to have arrived at great perfection at a very remote period. It was, in fact, a superior ware, equivalent to the porcelain of our days, and from the technical excellence of some of the smaller pieces has been frequently, but wrongly, so called. It will, perhaps, be as well, before entering further into the considera tion of the subject, to define and arrange the objects of our attention under general heads. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Italian Renaissance Maiolica from Southern Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: