Medieval, Renaissance, and historicizing styles including metalwork, enamels, and ceramics
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Medieval, Renaissance, and historicizing styles including metalwork, enamels, and ceramics
（Collections of the National Gallery of Art, systematic catalogue . Western decorative arts ; pt. 1）
National Gallery of Art , Cambridge University Press, c1993-
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Description
This volume is one of several that examines the National Gallery of Art's distinguished collection of decorative arts. (The second volume will be published in 1996.) The group treated here is composed primarily of works acquired from the Widener Collection, and amplified by holdings acquired from the Kress family. Included are more than eighty Medieval, Renaissance, and later historic objects in a wide variety of media, encompassing metalwork, stained glass, enamels, ceramics, and jewels. Among the highlights are a Limoges reliquary chasse, a Mosan lion aquamanile, thirty-eight pieces in a remarkable cohesive group of Italian maiolica, three of the very rare pottery objects known as 'Saint-Porchaire', and, the centerpiece of the collection, the Suger chalice, an ancient sardonyx cup to which the Abbot Suger added a bejewelled golden setting in the twelfth century. Like other volumes in the Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art Collections,Western Decorative Arts includes a thoroughly researched entry for each object, together with an artist biography, up-to-date bibliography, and a technical analysis.
Table of Contents
- Catalogue
- Medieval metalwork and enamels Alison Luchs and Philippe Verdier
- Late Medieval and Renaissance decorative arts Alison Luchs
- Renaissance enamels Philippe Verdier
- Technical appendix I: The enamels Daphne S. Barbour and Shelley G. Sturman
- Renaissance ceramics Timothy H. Wilson
- Technical appendix II: The 'Saint-Porchaire' ceramics Daphne S. Barbour, Shelley G. Sturman and Pamela B. Vandiver
- Jewels Rudolf Distelberger.
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