Timothy Wilson retired from his position as keeper of Western art at the Ashmolean in Oxford in 2017, and the same year saw the publication of his magisterial 568-page catalogue of the museum's medieval, renaissance and later Italian pottery (Italian
Maiolica and Europe).
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Among the topics are Virgil and Renaissance rhetorical theory, Virgilian imagery and the
Maiolica of the Mantuan court, Virgilian quotations on medals and token issued in the Low Countries during the second half of the 16th century, re-evaluating Turnus: multiple voices in Vegio's Supplement, Aeneas interpres: Landino's earliest allegory of the Aeneid and Ficino's first ten dialogues, and Virgil and the idea of a renaissance.
amusing faience (the French term for Italian
maiolica) figures of cats with green glass eyes, this one, called "La Signora Colombina", with a painted mark "Galle Nancy".
Galle also made amusing faience (the French term for Italian
maiolica) figures of cats with green glass eyes, this one, called "La Signora Colombina", with a painted mark "Galle Nancy".
But his greatest pride was his "Renaissance Museum," accessible only to his inner circle: A dazzling treasury of 16th-century and 17th-century curiosities and objets d'art in silver and silver-gilt, rock crystal, enamels, ivory,
maiolica, jewelry and sculpture a veritable Shatzkammer.
The study area consists mainly of micritic limestone belonging to the
Maiolica Formation (Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous) that widely outcrops in the area.
In wider terms, the Umbria-Marche series can be divided in three hydrogeological complexes consisting in the Corniola and Calcare Massiccio basal complex, the
Maiolica complex, and the Scaglia Calcarea complex.
6), my emphasis) The reference to Bernini's masterpiece, prepared by the preceding allusions to its location (the Galleria Borghese) and sources (Ovid's Metamorphoses; in the detail of its verses engraved on Sperelli's
maiolica cups, as also on the base of Bernini's Daphne) (12)--is revealed en passant by the author's stylistic recognition of the sculpture's distinguishing element, rendering Daphne in the very moment of her transformation.
Maiolica ware is characterized by low fire high iron content red clay.
The stars of the show include a delightful set of knives with musical notation on the blades, enabling the diners to sing the grace and benediction in four parts; a charmingly squat
maiolica Madonna with a lemon-pip breast, feeding an ungainly Child; Fra Angelico's exquisite pen and ink Dead Christ; a fragment of a late 16th century ivory Christ Crucified; and wall of ex voto images of miraculous recoveries and escapes from danger.
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maiolica - highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide