Luigi Valadier in Nicaragua - Xavier F. Salomon

An intriguing story of the search for, and discovery of, a wonderful and rare work of art thought lost for centuries.In 1767 and 1768, a number of objects made by the renowned eighteenth-century Roman goldsmith Luigi Valadier (1726–1785) were sent from Rome to a “principal church in Mexico,” but until recently they had been thought lost or destroyed. Among these was a monumental silver-gilt monstrance (a vessel in which the consecrated Host is shown), “destined for a principal church of Mexico... Zobrazit více