Luigi Valadier in Nicaragua
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2026
D Giles Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-913875-77-0 (ISBN)
D Giles Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-913875-77-0 (ISBN)
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This lavishly illustrated book tells the
intriguing story of the search for, and discovery of, wonderful, rare
gilt-silver religious vessels thought lost for centuries.
In 1767 and 1768, a
number of objects made by renowned 18th-century Roman goldsmith Luigi Valadier (1726–1785) were sent from
Rome to an unnamed “principal church in Mexico,” among them, a monstrance (a
vessel in which the consecrated Host is shown). All were thought to be lost.
During The Frick Collection’s 2018 exhibition Luigi Valadier: Splendor in
Eighteenth-Century Rome, Xavier F. Salomon kept asking himself whether the
lost treasure might be found.
The odds were slim because objects made of gold, silver, and precious stones have so often been melted for cash or recycling. But after an extensive search, Salomon located the monstrance in the Cathedral of León in Nicaragua, along with approximately twenty-five other “lost” objects—chandeliers, reliquaries, a chalice, and candlesticks—all works by Valadier, and many of them still in daily use in the cathedral. For more than 250 years this sacred treasure—the largest surviving
Valadier collection in the world—has been known only to worshippers in León,
their origin a mystery, until now.
intriguing story of the search for, and discovery of, wonderful, rare
gilt-silver religious vessels thought lost for centuries.
In 1767 and 1768, a
number of objects made by renowned 18th-century Roman goldsmith Luigi Valadier (1726–1785) were sent from
Rome to an unnamed “principal church in Mexico,” among them, a monstrance (a
vessel in which the consecrated Host is shown). All were thought to be lost.
During The Frick Collection’s 2018 exhibition Luigi Valadier: Splendor in
Eighteenth-Century Rome, Xavier F. Salomon kept asking himself whether the
lost treasure might be found.
The odds were slim because objects made of gold, silver, and precious stones have so often been melted for cash or recycling. But after an extensive search, Salomon located the monstrance in the Cathedral of León in Nicaragua, along with approximately twenty-five other “lost” objects—chandeliers, reliquaries, a chalice, and candlesticks—all works by Valadier, and many of them still in daily use in the cathedral. For more than 250 years this sacred treasure—the largest surviving
Valadier collection in the world—has been known only to worshippers in León,
their origin a mystery, until now.
Xavier F. Salomon is director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum and the former deputy director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator of The Frick Collection
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Valadier in Nicaragua
Catalogue
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
Image Credits
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.4.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 145 Illustrations, color |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 241 x 267 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-913875-77-6 / 1913875776 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-913875-77-0 / 9781913875770 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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