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Title: Riccio's Oil Lamp
Condition: New
Author: James Fenton, Ian Wardropper
Type: Hardback
Format: Hardback
EAN: 9781913875312
ISBN: 9781913875312
Publisher: D Giles Ltd
Genre: Arts & Photography
Topic: Poetry & Drama
Release Date: 25/04/2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 235mm
Item Length: 191mm
Book Series: Frick Diptych
Language: English
Release Year: 2023
Description: 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 and Triton, Pan, harpies and innumerable putti, along with goats, musical instruments, shells, masks and garlands. Inspired by the Roman half-boot, the lamp is designed as a bizarre shoe balanced on a pyramidal base, and, as Ian Wardropper discusses in his essay, it would have provided its owner with much pleasure and intellectual stimulation. Early in its history, the lamp is known to have belonged to a series of distinguished Paduan collectors. Paired with Wardropper’s essay is a beautiful poem by James Fenton.

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