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Article: The gilder's art.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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Pots and pots of brushes of all sizes, steel dental tools, clamps, a two-burner hotplate containing an unrecognizable melting ooze incorporating a hefty clove of garlic, and glass containers holding a wide array of colored clays. These are just some of the accouterments of the gilder's art that can be found in a walk-up studio in lower Manhattan where Giovanni Bucchi, a wiry and ebullient Roman, plies a complex craft that is hundreds of years old. The resident deity is a small gilded wood statue of Archangel Michael created in Florence in the seven-teenth century, which greets one immediately upon entering. Its age is apparent, and in more than a few places its gilding has ...
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