Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 52
industry of the place; the trade generally thendeclined, and the artists were forced to emigrate. Urbino is a city celebrated in the art and literature of POTTERY 31 Italy in the Renaissance period, and her dukes rivalledthe jMedici family of Florence in the patronage and encou-ragement of art,… … Fig. 50.-Diug Pot; Castel-Durante Ware. (S. K. M.) the versatile artists in Majoliche istoriate, and FrancescoXanto, may be mentioned as the most important. To the first-named artist, Nicola, is ascribed the earliestauthentic works from the potteries of Urbino, the celebratedservice of maiolica,…
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