The Walters Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Painted Enamels of the Renaissance
Baltimore, Maryland: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1967. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with stamped gilt lettering on cover and spine; blue cloth slipcase, [xxvii] 423 pp; color frontispiece, 215 plates, chiefly bw, eight in color. VG. Item #127852
A sharp, bright copy. From the introduction: Interest in the Limoges enamels of the Renaissance was aroused in France as a consequence of the romantic movement and in particular of the predilection of such writers as Balzac, Theophile Gautier, and Prosper Merimee for evoking the drama of life at the Valois court in the Ile de France and the Loire valley during the sixteenth century, and the magnificence of the art and fashion there. From the 1830s and 1840s, no French art collector in the field of European decorative arts considered his collection complete without including masterpieces of the Limoges enamellers. The quest for Limoges enamels was no less passionate in England.
OCLC: 283876
Price: $45.00