Expanding the oeuvre of the master metalsmith Orazio Fortezza

• Autores: Flora Turner-Vučetić
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 166, Nº 1455, 2024 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Qing afterlife), págs. 570-579
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • An especially fine brass display plate in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is identified here for the first time as a work by the master metalsmith and engraver Orazio Fortezza and a commission for the Venetian Foscari family. Fortezza was from Dalmatia, which formed part of the Venetian empire, and the objects that he created are characterised by a richly engraved vocabulary of ornament and narrtives inspired by ancient precedents