Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Hand-painted Terracotta Whistles: Bird Water Whistle. Arpino, 1909 / Birds. Patro di Moncalvo, 1910 / Devil Riding a Goat. Este, 1907.





Earth, Fire, Water, Breath - National Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions, Rome - 1995. Images selected from the catalog published by "Edizioni De Luca".

5 comments:

G&A said...

Dear blogger, we would like to use the picture of the Bird Water whistle in your blog in a book we are about to publish. Our book is in Greek and relates to a virtual museum of children's folk musical instruments. How can we contact you? What is your email?

Janas said...

I have scanned the images from an article published in the magazine "Artigianato" (number 17 - April / June 1995). These pictures were originally selected from the exhibition catalog: La terra, il fuoco, l'acqua, il soffio : la collezione dei fischietti di terracotta del Museo nazionale delle arti e tradizioni popolari - Roma, Edizioni De Luca, 1995. If you are interested, I can scan the entire article with some other images of whistles.
Greetings,
Janas.

G&A said...

Dear Janas, it would be very helpful if you could scan and email us the article. Or please let us know of the Artigianato website, so that we can contact them. Thank you!

Janas said...

Hi,
this is the link to download the article fully illustrated in pdf format (17,9 MB).

A breath of magic

I've included the English translation in the last page, also, I have found the following link concerning the book publisher and the magazine.

Artigianato

De Luca Editori

I hope I was helpful to you.
Greetings,
Janas.

G&A said...

Dear Janas, thank you so very very much for the article and the links!!! It has been so useful for our work. We are so very gradeful. Keep up your excellent blog!