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Tapestry was to northern Europe what fresco was to Italy, or the refulgent gold-leaf screens of the Momoyama period were to the dark castle interiors of 16th century Japan: the main form of large-scale decoration. Moreover, it had two advantages that fresco did not possess: a duke could change his hangings, and they warmed his drafty abode in winter. And yet the appetite for tapestries went beyond all questions of use and ornament. They were collected with manic extravagance. As the Cluny Museum's chief curator Francis Salet points out in his catalogue introduction, Philip the Good...
...ammonia solution that would turn the crystals back into calcium carbonate again. Impregnating a postcard-size sheet of Japanese rice paper with the solution and backing the paper with wood pulp, Dini and an assistant pressed each little rice-paper block for five minutes on the surface of the fresco, then repeated the procedure with a second solution. It took two years to thus cover each square inch of the vast painting...
Taddeo Gaddi: fresco, the Last Supper (Museum of Santa Croce...
...real malaise lies deeper, and it is only visible to those who-following the lead of conservation groups like Italia Nostra and the recently formed Firenze Viva-are ready to see the problem holistically, as a menace to the balance of interlocked, mutually supporting cultural and natural systems. The fresco is to the wall as the wall is to the building, the building to the piazza, the piazza to the town, the town to its natural setting...
...works. From the pastoral sweetness in the early tapestry designs to devouring melancholy in the Black Paintings, Goya's creations record one of the broadest, most intricate and energetic imaginations in art history. Gassier and Wilson are indispensable guides, as they take up every known painting, fresco, drawing and print by Goya and link the whole with a biographical narrative. The plates, though small, are clear; the book completely justifies its price...