This book catalogues the Getty Museum's fine collection of forty-five Italian ceramic objects spanning four hundred years, including a pair of eighteenth-century candlesticks representing mythological scenes, a tabletop with hunting scenes, and, from the 1790s, the beautifully modeled and painted Saint Joseph with the Christ Child. Containing the most recent scientific, historical, and iconographic information about the Museum's holdings, Italian Ceramics offers a wealth of new information about the Getty Museum's superb collection of Italian ceramic art.
- ISBN10 0892366907
- ISBN13 9780892366903
- Publish Date 1 January 2003
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Getty Trust Publications
- Imprint Getty Publishing
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English