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Exuberant Grotesques: Renaissance Maiolica from the Fontana Workshop
September 15, 2009, through January 17, 2010

		All of the podcasts below, including this introduction to the exhibition, are by Charlotte Vignon, the newly appointed Associate Curator of Decorative Arts, The Frick Collection. Download MP3
Charlotte Vignon, Associate Curator of Decorative Arts, The Frick Collection
		Snake-Handled Vase, with scenes from Amadis of Gaul Urbino or Turin, c. 1560–70 probably the workshop of Orazio Fontana Philadelphia Museum of Art. Purchased with the Bloomfield Moore Fund and with other museum funds in 1944 Download MP3
		Dish, The Judgment of Paris Urbino, c. 1565–70 probably the workshop of Orazio Fontana The Frick Collection. Gift of Dianne Dwyer Modestini in memory of Mario Modestini, 2008 Download MP3
		Basin (wine cooler), Battle with Elephants Urbino, c. 1565–75 probably the workshop of the Fontana family The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931 Download MP3

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Introduction

Maiolica Technique

The Works of Art

Dish, The Judgment of Paris


Large Oval Dish, with scenes from Amadis of Gaul


Basin (wine cooler), Battle with Elephants


Snake-Handled Vase, with scenes from Amadis of Gaul


Pair of Vases, Biblical Scenes from the Old Testament

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