18th Century Italian Furniture. Educational Guide to Furniture Styles and Their Ratings.
Vausor| N° d'inventaire | 23755 |
| Format | |
| Détails | 342 p. |
| Publication | sl, 2005 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9780970016812 |
In this new volume on 18th-century Italian furniture, Giacomo Wannenes comprehensively addresses styles and periods that are both so close and so distant. The author proves, once again, that he prefers to avoid dry explanations and expositions, often characterized by a rigid style imposed by the mystical respect that such arguments arouse, and instead confronts the difficulty of assigning a price to beauty—something he succeeds in brilliantly.
- like all Arts in general, the art of making furniture undergoes or can undergo alterations and mystifications on the part of the "profaners of the temple". The author analyzes each piece from the stylistic, aesthetic and commercial profile and offers the collector, whether layman or connoisseur, the complete panorama of the 18th century, from the beginning of the Barocchetto to the Directory, specifying the different quotations.
In the expert hands of a skilled craftsman and under his investigative and objective gaze, furniture becomes a living creature, subject to all the deceptions and violence hidden along the paths of time. For the first time, we are witnessing an exhibition that allows us to understand that 18th-century styles created furniture that is not always sublime and that beauty comes in shades as numerous as those of the rainbow.
And although it may seem obvious, this aspect of Art History is treated for the first time with a very particular and sincere style. Guided by an expert, we stroll through the twists and turns of the most creative century in the entire History of Art, without any spirit of desacralization, certainly, but also without any unnecessary complacency or indulgence.
In this new volume on 18th-century Italian furniture, Giacomo Wannenes comprehensively addresses styles and periods that are both so close and so distant. The author proves, once again, that he prefers to avoid dry explanations and expositions, often characterized by a rigid style imposed by the mystical respect that such arguments arouse, and instead confronts the difficulty of assigning a price to beauty—something he succeeds in brilliantly.
- like all Arts in general, the art of making furniture undergoes or can undergo alterations and mystifications on the part of the "profaners of the temple". The author analyzes each piece from the stylistic, aesthetic and commercial profile and offers the collector, whether layman or connoisseur, the complete panorama of the 18th century, from the beginning of the Barocchetto to the Directory, specifying the different quotations.
In the expert hands of a skilled craftsman and under his investigative and objective gaze, furniture becomes a living creature, subject to all the deceptions and violence hidden along the paths of time. For the first time, we are witnessing an exhibition that allows us to understand that 18th-century styles created furniture that is not always sublime and that beauty comes in shades as numerous as those of the rainbow.
And although it may seem obvious, this aspect of Art History is treated for the first time with a very particular and sincere style. Guided by an expert, we stroll through the twists and turns of the most creative century in the entire History of Art, without any spirit of desacralization, certainly, but also without any unnecessary complacency or indulgence.