Author: WATSON, WENDY M.
Title: Italian Renaissance Ceramics: The Howard I. And Janet H. Stein Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Description: Philadelphia Museum of Art. 2001. (ISBN: 0876331541). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 24 x 29 cm; 1.5 kg; 224 pages with 112 colour and 55 black and white illustrations .; Used with signs of wear on the exterior of the dust jacket, namely minor scratches and wear signs on the front cover, spine and back cover. Minor wear mark at the bottom left side of the dust jacket. Interior as new.; Catalogue from the exhibition Italian Renaissance Ceramics: The Howard I. and Janet H. Stein Collection, held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from December 7, 2001 to April 28, 2002.; The Philadelphia Museum of Art is the fortunate beneficiary of Howard I. and Janet H. Stein's important collection of Italian Renaissance ceramics. This handsome book features the Stein Collection and brings it together, for the first time, with related pieces belonging to the Museum. More than ninety objects, painted in vibrant colors that have survived half a millennium with undiminished brilliance, are reproduced in color and in black and white. Together they represent the various shapes, ornamentation, ambitious compositions, and complex narratives characteristic of a distinguished selection of ceramics from Renaissance Italy. The fascinating history of these objects unfolds in the text by specialist Wendy M. Watson. Included is an original essay by Dean Walker on collecting maiolica in the United States, and a detailed scholarly checklist. Good/Dust Jacket Included.

Keywords: 0876331541 majolica,italian exhibitions,renaissance italy,exhibitions,stein howard,art collections,stein janet h.,majolica private collections,pennsylvania,philadelphia,philadelphia museum of art European Ceramics


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