Riccio's Oil Lamp
$69.70
- Hardcover
64 pages
- Release Date
25 April 2023
Summary
New volume in the Frick Diptych series focuses on a remarkable Renaissance lamp, pairing an essay by Frick director Ian Wardropper with a new poem by James Fenton.
The form of this extraordinary bronze lamp, the most elaborate of several produced by Riccio (Andrea Briosco), is based on a Roman sandal, and its surface is covered with intricate reliefs modelled with a goldsmith’s refinement and crisp detail. The subjects evoke the populace of classical art and poetry, including a Nereid…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781913875312 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1913875318 |
| Author: | James Fenton, Ian Wardropper |
| Publisher: | D Giles Ltd |
| Imprint: | D Giles Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 25 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 191mm |
| Series: | Frick Diptych |
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About The Author
James Fenton
Ian Wardropper is the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Director, The Frick Collection, New York.
James Fenton was born in Lincoln, England, in 1949 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. He has worked as a political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, war correspondent, foreign correspondent and columnist, including for the New York Review of Books. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Fenton received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2007, and in 2015 won the PEN Pinter Prize.
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