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Valadier - Splendour in Eighteenth-Century Rome (Hardcover)
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Valadier - Splendour in Eighteenth-Century Rome (Hardcover)
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Luigi Valadier, son of the French-born Andrea, obtained his
silversmith license in 1760 and became one of the most celebrated
artists in Europe, working for the noble families of Rome
(Borghese, Odescalchi, Chigi, Orsini), cardinals and popes and a
broad international clientele which included the Duke of
Northumberland, Madame du Barry, the Bali of Malta, Jacques-Laure
Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, the King of Sweden, Karl Theodor, Elector
of Bavaria, the Count of the North, heir to the Russian throne,
etc. His workshop situated near Piazza di Spagna employed dozens of
craftsmen and produced not only silverware but also bronze statues,
often copies of ancient sculptures, magnificent clocks, vases in
precious marbles, lamps, huge candelabras, furniture, desers,
reliquaries and liturgical vessels, and much more. In 1785 while
completing commissions for the Borghese prince and working on the
cast of the enormous bell of St Peter's, he committed suicide by
drowning in the Tiber river, possibly due to the severe economic
challenges from which his extraordinary workshop was suffering.
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