This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIX THE MINOR AKTS IN SIENA It was only natural that a people whose decorative ideal was a hieratic sumptuousness, a people who loved rich colours and splendid material, and whose artists showed singular niceness and refinement in the perfecting of detail, should have excelled in these minor ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIX THE MINOR AKTS IN SIENA It was only natural that a people whose decorative ideal was a hieratic sumptuousness, a people who loved rich colours and splendid material, and whose artists showed singular niceness and refinement in the perfecting of detail, should have excelled in these minor arts Avhich add so much to the beauty and comeliness of civilised life. Siena produced great goldsmiths, cunning craftsmen who made crowns and chalices for emperors and popes, consummate miniaturists, like that painter who realised in colour the poet's vision of his lady's loveliness. So enamoured were the Sienese of splendour of surface that even their pavements were decorated by their artists, fitly and beautifully by the vasai of the Bichi Chapel and of the Oratory of St Catherine, in an unfit and yet sumptuous manner by Beccafumi and his followers. And first I will speak of their goldsmith's work. Already, in the period of Montaperti, the fame of Siena's goldsmiths had extended far beyond her own contado. It was Sienese artists who fashioned some of the lovely things which adorned the sacristy of Sant' Jacopo at Pistoia, the sagrestia dei begli arredi sung by Dante. In and about the year 1260, Maestro Pace di Valentino, a distinguished craftsman of Siena, made a chalice and other splendid things for the treasury of the Pistoian Church.1 But the age of Duccio was the great age of the goldsmiths of Siena. Lando di Pietro, who was destined to become one of Italy's greatest architects, began his artistic career, as we have seen, as a worker in the precious metals. He was goldsmith to the Emperor Henry VII, and made his imperial crown. The goldsmith of the papal court at that time was also a Sienese. From the year 1307 until the year 1320...
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