Colorful, spatially illusionistic, and intellectually intricate, the maiolica created by the Italian potters of Castelli during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries constitutes a final, supremely pictorial phase of this tin-glazed earthenware art. The Gentili/Barnabei archive at the Getty Research Institute affords a rare glimpse into the workshops that produced these wares. Maiolica in the Making not only documents the drawings, engravings, transfer patterns, letters, and other papers preserved in this unusual archive but also discusses their significance for the history of ceramics. …