Making Magnificence: Architects, Stuccatori & the 18th Century
@ The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
40 E Erie St, Chicago, Illinois 60611
Opening Wednesday, October 24th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
Join author Christine Casey for a presentation on her recently published book, which tells the remarkable story of the craftsmen of Ticino, in Italian-speaking Switzerland. These craftsmen took their prodigious skills as specialist decorative plasterworkers throughout Northern Europe in the 18th century, adorning classical architecture with their rich and fluent décor. Their names are not widely known – Giuseppi Artari (c.1690–1771), Giovanni Battista Bagutti (1681–1755), and Francesco Vassalli (1701–1771) are a few – but their work transformed the interiors of magnificent buildings in Italy, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Britain, and Ireland. Among the interiors highlighted in this deeply researched, beautifully illustrated volume are Palazzo Reale in Turin, Upper Belvedere in Vienna, St. Martin in the Fields in London, the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford, Houghton Hall in Norfolk, and Carton House in Ireland. Photo: The Audience Chamber of Margrave’s apartment (Photo: Staatlichen Schlösser und Gärten Baden-Württemberg, Courtesy of Yale University Press)
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