Painted Enamels of Limoges: a Catalogue of the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Caroselli, Susan L
A Catalogue of the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
KORTE INHOUD
The collection of enamels in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art comprises forty-five works by many of the major enamel painters of the Renaissance.The museum's collection is catalogued in detailed entries that include photographic documentation of all decorated surfaces, as well as comparative illustrations of the printed sources from which the images were derived.
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1993Uitgever: Los Angeles, L.A. Museum Art 1993, 1993216 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0500974063ISBN-13: 9780500974063Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Experimenting with a new technique of painting with enamel on copper, the artists of Limoges in central France founded an industry in the late 15th-century that continues to this day. For nearly 200 years they produced plaques and display pieces that were prized throughout Europe and inspired a full-scale revival of the art in the later 19th-century. Among their masterpieces were colourful devotional polyptychs, portrait series or scenes from literature, painted vessels and sets of calendar plates recording...
