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- catalog abstract "Limoges enamels, the richest surviving corpus of medieval metalwork, were renowned throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. Yet today they are little known outside academic circles. The present volume, published in conjuction with the exhibition Enamels of Limoges, 1100-1350, brings to deserved public attention nearly two hundred of the most important and representative examples from the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musee du Louvre, the great church. Treasuries of France, and other sources. The works of Limoges were created for important ecclesiastical and royal patrons. The wealth of enameling preserved from the Treasury of the abbey of Grandmont, just outside Limoges, is due chiefly to the Plantagenet patronage of Henry II and his queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. Enamels created during their reign resonate with the elegant style of the court, and the dramatic history of Henry's monarchy is evoked by such works as the. Reliquary of Saint Thomas Becket. Ecclesiastical patrons such as Archbishop Absalon of Lund, Cardinal Guala Bicchieri, and, above all, Pope Innocent III were key to the dissemination of Limoges work throughout the churches of Europe. While few of the artists who created the enamels that have come down to us are known by name, the works of several - Master Alpais, Garnerius, and Aymeric Chretien - are here juxtaposed with related pieces, some of them demonstrably from the. Same atelier.".
- catalog contributor b9732604.
- catalog contributor b9732605.
- catalog contributor b9732606.
- catalog contributor b9732607.
- catalog contributor b9732608.
- catalog coverage "Limoges (France) Antiquities Exhibitions.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-468) and index.".
- catalog description "Limoges enamels, the richest surviving corpus of medieval metalwork, were renowned throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. Yet today they are little known outside academic circles. The present volume, published in conjuction with the exhibition Enamels of Limoges, 1100-1350, brings to deserved public attention nearly two hundred of the most important and representative examples from the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musee du Louvre, the great church.".
- catalog description "Reliquary of Saint Thomas Becket. Ecclesiastical patrons such as Archbishop Absalon of Lund, Cardinal Guala Bicchieri, and, above all, Pope Innocent III were key to the dissemination of Limoges work throughout the churches of Europe. While few of the artists who created the enamels that have come down to us are known by name, the works of several - Master Alpais, Garnerius, and Aymeric Chretien - are here juxtaposed with related pieces, some of them demonstrably from the.".
- catalog description "Same atelier.".
- catalog description "Transatlantic crossings of the art of Limoges / Marie-Madeleine Gauthier -- Limousin and Limoges in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Bernadette Barrière -- Religious life in the Limousin in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Dom Jean Becquet -- Beginnings and evolution of the Oeuvre de limoges / Elisabeth Taburet-Delahaye -- Opus lemovicense: the taste for and diffusion of Limousin enamels / Barbara Drake Boehm -- Techniques and materials in Limoges enamels / Isabelle Biron, Pete Dandridge, Mark T. Wypyski -- Birth of enameling in Acquitaine (1100-1160) -- Opus lemovicense and the creation of a European taste (1160-1190) -- Abbey of Grandmont (12th-13th century) / Jean-René Gaborit -- Limoges in transition (1190-1230) -- Last flowering (1240-1320) / Michel Pastoureau -- Gilded images : sacred and funerary sculptures (13th-14th century) / Béatrice de Chancel-Bardelot -- Tombs of Limoges Work / Béatrice de Chancel-Bardelot -- Techiniques and materials in Limoges enamels / Isabelle Biron, Pete Dandridge, Mark T. Wypyski.".
- catalog description "Treasuries of France, and other sources. The works of Limoges were created for important ecclesiastical and royal patrons. The wealth of enameling preserved from the Treasury of the abbey of Grandmont, just outside Limoges, is due chiefly to the Plantagenet patronage of Henry II and his queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. Enamels created during their reign resonate with the elegant style of the court, and the dramatic history of Henry's monarchy is evoked by such works as the.".
- catalog extent "478 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Enamels of Limoges.".
- catalog identifier "0810965003 (Abrams)".
- catalog identifier "0870997580".
- catalog identifier "0870997599 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Enamels of Limoges.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by H. N. Abrams,".
- catalog relation "Enamels of Limoges.".
- catalog spatial "France Limoges".
- catalog spatial "Limoges (France) Antiquities Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "Christian art and symbolism France Limoges Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "Enamel and enameling France Limoges Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "Enamel and enameling, Medieval France Limoges Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "NK5004.F8 E5 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "Transatlantic crossings of the art of Limoges / Marie-Madeleine Gauthier -- Limousin and Limoges in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Bernadette Barrière -- Religious life in the Limousin in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Dom Jean Becquet -- Beginnings and evolution of the Oeuvre de limoges / Elisabeth Taburet-Delahaye -- Opus lemovicense: the taste for and diffusion of Limousin enamels / Barbara Drake Boehm -- Techniques and materials in Limoges enamels / Isabelle Biron, Pete Dandridge, Mark T. Wypyski -- Birth of enameling in Acquitaine (1100-1160) -- Opus lemovicense and the creation of a European taste (1160-1190) -- Abbey of Grandmont (12th-13th century) / Jean-René Gaborit -- Limoges in transition (1190-1230) -- Last flowering (1240-1320) / Michel Pastoureau -- Gilded images : sacred and funerary sculptures (13th-14th century) / Béatrice de Chancel-Bardelot -- Tombs of Limoges Work / Béatrice de Chancel-Bardelot -- Techiniques and materials in Limoges enamels / Isabelle Biron, Pete Dandridge, Mark T. Wypyski.".
- catalog title "Enamels of Limoges, 1100-1350 / [curators of the exhibition, Barbara Drake Boehm, Elisabeth Taburet-Delahaye].".
- catalog type "Exhibition catalogs. fast".
- catalog type "text".