WHITE GOLD’ IN EARLY TO MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY VENICE AND FLORENCE: THE FIRST ITALIAN PORCELAIN FACTORIES AND THEIR HIGHLY COVETED PRODUCTION

An inaccessible material both in terms of technology and manufacture for the aristocratic classes and the royal courts of Europe and especially for the prominent politically, socially and culturally Italy, porcelain was until the beginning of the eighteenth century an ‘impossible dream’ which only t...

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Main Author: Johannis Tsoumas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ARTIS- Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa 2015-12-01
Series:Art is on
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Online Access:http://artison.letras.ulisboa.pt/index.php/ao/article/view/12