Luigi Valadier in Nicaragua

by 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1913875776
• ISBN13: 9781913875770
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Giles
• Length: 160 Pages