Making magnificence : architects, stuccatori and the eighteenth-century interior /

This book tells the remarkable story of the craftsmen of Ticino, in Italian-speaking Switzerland, who took their prodigious skills as specialist decorative plasterworkers throughout Northern Europe in the 18th century, adorning classical architecture with their rich and fluent decor. Their names are...

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Main Author:	Casey, Christine, 1960- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Plasterwork, Decorative > Great Britain. Plasterwork, Decorative > Ireland. Decoration and ornament, Architectural > Europe. Decoration and ornament, Architectural. Plasterwork, Decorative. Europe. Great Britain. Ireland.