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Book SynopsisThis book is an edited record of the papers given at the two-day symposium ‘Italian Maiolica and Europe’ held in Oxford on 22 and 23 September 2017. It is, in effect, a celebration of his long service in the Ashmolean Museum as the Keeper of Western Art. Museum collections develop their great strengths in one of two ways: through gifts of private collections and through the knowledge and enthusiasm of curators. The Ashmolean’s renowned and important collection of Italian Maiolica owes its foundation to the former and the bequest of C.D.E. Fortnum. But it has grown and developed in remarkable ways over the last three decades thanks to the energy and expertise of Professor Timothy Wilson. During his 27 years as Keeper of Western Art, Tim was responsible for a truly extraordinary range and number of important acquisitions across the fine and decorative arts. As one of the world’s leading scholars of Italian Maiolica, it was only natural that he would continue to build on Fortnum’s legacy.
Table of ContentsForeword; Preface; The Place of Maiolica among the Arts of the Renaissance by Caroline Campbell; Archaic Maiolicas in the North, c. 1280–1450 by Hugo Blake; Revisiting Niculoso Pisano (active 1503–1529): Italian Novelties and Iberian Taste by Alfonso Pleguezuelo; Italian-influenced tin-glazed Earthenware of the sixteenth and seventeenth Centuries North of the Alps. More Questions than Answers by Silvia Glaser; Reflections on early Gubbio Lustreware by Elisa Paola Sani; An istoriato Basin fit for a Cardinal by J.V.G. Mallet; Several Seventeenth-century Armorial bianchi Works for Roman and other élite Clients by Michael J. Brody; High-quality Maiolica in the style of Porcelain: Experiments in North Italian Maiolica in its productive final Years by Raffaella Ausenda; Provenance as a Criterion for Attribution: Napoleonic Seizures in Braunschweig and the Maiolica Collection in the Louvre by Françoise Barbe; ‘Deglj Antiquari il Re’: Giovanni Freppa as Dealer, Collector and Forger in nineteenth-century Florence by Dora Thornton; Luigi Girelli, a late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century Collector and Draughtsman of Italian Maiolica by Valentina Mazzotti; Fragments, Restoration, Fakes. Some Considerations on the Collecting of Maiolica before 1914 by Lucio Riccetti;
Timothy Wilson publications: Renaissance and later Ceramics (and a little Glass); General Bibliography
