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 the cycle of the ...
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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 the cycle of the seasons. Limoges enamels are an important and delightful manifestation of the culture of Renaissance France and a virtual compendium of European medieval, Renaissance and Mannerist painting and graphic arts. The painters absorbed the full range of contemporary imagery and disseminated it to customers and patrons ranging from village clergy to the French monarchy.
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45 numbered items in catalogue with B&W plates. 15 color plates. 44 text figures. Appendix. Biblio. Index. Folio 12" x 9 1/8". Black cloth stamped in gilt on spine. 216 pages printed on slick paper. Tightly bound. Dust jacket. near Fine/ Fine.
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Good. Good or better condition. Pages have scattered marks and notes, but completely legible, binding is good. Covers mostly clean, minor scuffing or stickers. Solid reading copies.
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Fine Condition in Fine Condition jacket. 216 pp., many illus. both B&W and color. The collection of Limoges enamels in LACMAs collection comprises 45 works by many of the major enamel painters of the Renaissance.
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New. 0500974063. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--216 pp. With 147 ills. (19 col. ). 31 x 24 cm. --with a bonus offer--
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