maiolica

Definitions

Examples

• The collaboration is “inspired by traditional Sicilian kitchens” and meant to mimic the look of Sicilian fruit vendor carts, blue-painted maiolica tile patterns, and traditional Sicilian artwork.

• Giorgio was a statuary as well as a painter of maiolica, several of his sculptures in marble being yet extant.

• If not the most ancient, Faenza was one of the most celebrated of the manufactories of maiolica in Italy.

• According to Passeri there were fabriques of maiolica at Forlì in the 14th century.

• As an example of Venetian maiolica, circa 1700, see Fig. 25, a plate painted with an architectural subject.

• Francesco Saverio Grue, a man of letters and science, became about this time director of this Neapolitan maiolica fabrique.