Luigi Valadier

Abstract

Of the many artists who flourished in Rome during the eighteenth century, the silversmith Luigi Valadier (1726-1785) was particularly admired by popes, royalty, and aristocrats across Europe. Luigi Valadier: Splendor in Eighteenth-Century Rome, co-curated by Alvar González-Palacios and Xavier F. Salomon, will bring together more than sixty extradordinary works by the renowned silversmith in celebration of his unsurpassed technical expertise and avant-garde aesthetic.

Contents

Director's foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Xavier F. Salomon -- The Valadier family -- Andrea Valadier -- Secular silver -- Desers -- Colored stones and gilt metal -- Works for the Museo profano -- Opus sacrum -- Bronzes -- Furnishings and decoration -- Giuseppe Valadier and the end of the workshop -- Models from the Valadier Registro generale of 1810 -- Chronology -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index -- Photography credits.