Soviet Museums .:. Italian cassoni

Faenson, Liubov [comp. and introd.],
Italian cassoni from the art collections of Soviet Museums. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publ., 1983. 21 Seiten Text mit Abbildungen + 96 Abbildungen auf Tafeln. Pappband (gebunden). 4to. 1808 g

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* Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren und hinterklebtem Riss.
Bestell-Nr.157870

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Soviet Museums | Russland | Sowjetunion | Museologie | Italien | Handwerk | Kunsthandwerk | Moebel | Cassoni | Cassone | Truhen

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-:E PRESENT VOLUME ACQUAINTS-1!--:1.-= READER WITH THE COLLECTION OF ITALIAN WEDDING CHESTS, CASSONI, HOUSED IN THE MUSEUMS OF MOSCOW, LENINGRAD, KIEV, AND OTHER CITIES IN THE SOVIET UNION.
The Renaissance in Italy was marked by a great upsurge in applied arts: wood carving, bronzework, majolica, and other crafts. Cassoni occupy a special place among the works created at the time. The artist'c value of the cassoni lies in their beautiful decoration, which was usually made by outstanding painters and wood-carvers. About seventy cassoni and separate front panels decorated with painting, ; ntarsia, postiglia (stucco) work, and carving are preserved in the museums of the Soviet Union. The work of such renown:: masters as Jacopo del Sellaio and Bernardo Fungal are found amc-:: the painted panels. The chests by the well-known Fore.--tine architect Bernardo out of the large group of carved cassoni. Some of tf-E- Ror-- furniture-makers of the sixteenth cen:ury are represe'-:cd ,n Soviet museums by quite excellent pieces, - wh cassoni with reliefs =-7-- the life of jul,us Caesar don - from the circlo VI:: angel°. A beautiful example cf p.-.-_ is a 7. panel exec.:ted after an engravi- by a master of - col of the fa-mo.,s o.,..nter Antonio 7.7 uolo. col'e_ct,ons of casso-. in the _:scums of t- e Union, the \rh.ch is -n the —-m:tage, a ow us to charac-tc- the of the majo- s: .-2,c-:res of Italy: Florence.and Northe-- s S publication of :re c.--_--olete collect'or . • er 11USE'Ll'"C.

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