Luigi Valadier - González-Palacios, Alvar

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Résumé :
The first complete monograph of the extraordinarily inventive work of Luigi Valadier, arguably the greatest silver- and goldsmith in eighteenth-century Italy.

Biographie:
Alvar Gonz?lez-Palacios is an internationally recognized art historian. In 1997 he was awarded the Legion of Honour. He has authored many books on Italian and French decorative arts, including catalogues for the Louvre, the Prado, the Quirinal, and the Vatican Museums. He taught art history at the University of Bologna and has lectured at numerous American museums, among them, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Getty Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as in England, France, Spain, and Italy. His many publication include The French Empire Style: 70 Plates in Full Colour(1970); Lo Scultore Filippo Tagliolini E La Porcellana Di Napoli: Con Un Catalogo Delle Opere; La cultura dell'ignoranza (I Testimoni dell'arte) (1983); The Age of Louis XV (1984); l'Oro di Valadier: Un genio nella Roma del Settecento (1997); Furniture and Ornaments at the Court of Rome 1560-1795 (2004); and Nostalgia e invenzione: Arredi e arti decorative a Roma e a Napoli nel Settecento (2010).

Sommaire:
Director's Foreword Acknowledgments I The Valadier Family II Andrea Valadier III Secular Silver IV Deser V Colored Stones and Gilt Metal VI Work for the Museo Profano VII Opus Sacrum VIII Bronzes IX Furnishings and Decoration X Giuseppe Valadier and the End of the Workshop XI Models from the Valadier Registro generale of 1810 Chronology Appendices Bibliography Index Photography Credits