This plate is one of twenty-two surviving pieces of a splendid service made for Isabella d'Este , duchess of Mantua. It bears her coat-of-arms in the centre. In spite of being constantly short of money, Isabella was an ambitious patron of the arts with, as she admitted , an ' insatiable desire ' for ancient Greek and Roman art. Tin-glazed earthenware (known as maiolica), was often decorated during this period with scenes from classical mythology....Nicola da Urbino (1480-1540-1547) has been designated as the Italian ceramicist who introduced into painted maiolica the new ' Istoriato' style, in which the whole surface of a plate or charger is devoted to a single representational scene.
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Wednesday, 16 January 2013
' Plate depicting the story of Perseus and Andromeda from the Isabella d'Este service ' Nicola da Urbino (Italian 1480-1540/1547) Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) , circa about 1524. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.
This plate is one of twenty-two surviving pieces of a splendid service made for Isabella d'Este , duchess of Mantua. It bears her coat-of-arms in the centre. In spite of being constantly short of money, Isabella was an ambitious patron of the arts with, as she admitted , an ' insatiable desire ' for ancient Greek and Roman art. Tin-glazed earthenware (known as maiolica), was often decorated during this period with scenes from classical mythology....Nicola da Urbino (1480-1540-1547) has been designated as the Italian ceramicist who introduced into painted maiolica the new ' Istoriato' style, in which the whole surface of a plate or charger is devoted to a single representational scene.
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