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The Gubbio Studiolo and Its Conservation: Volume 1: Federico Da Montefeltro's Palace at Gubbio and Its Studiolo/Volume 2: Italian Renaissance Intarsia

The Gubbio Studiolo and Its Conservation: Volume 1: Federico Da Montefeltro's Palace at Gubbio and Its Studiolo/Volume 2: Italian Renaissance Intarsia

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Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art (Hardcover)

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ISBN10: 0300085168
ISBN13: 9780300085167
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Pages: 504
Weight: 6.80
Height: 2.23 Width: 9.10 Depth: 11.71
Language: English
The Gubbio studiolo, a small private study that is a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance intarsia, was reinstalled in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1996. It is valued not only for its perspectival inlay--a tour de force of illusionism--but also for its rich historical associations and beauty. Made for Federico da Montefeltro, a fifteenth-century condottiere, the studiolo has intarsia panels that display a dazzling array of the accoutrements of the duke's life. This treasure trove is rendered with the most admirable understanding of the laws of perspective. The objects depicted and the shadows that give them such volume are composed of thousands of pieces and slivers of different varieties of wood, each set with uncanny accuracy.

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