The Wyvern Collection Medieval and Renaissance Enamels /anglais - Couverture rigide

Williamson, Paul

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0500024561 ISBN 13 : 9780500024560

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

The Wyvern Collection, 9780500024560

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Paul Williamson is Keeper Emeritus and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art. His many books include Gothic Sculpture, 1140-1300; Medieval Ivory Carvings: Early Christian to Romanesque; and Medieval Ivory Carvings, 1200-1550.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Works of art in enamel are among the most attractive, colourful and revealing objects of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Enamel was employed to embellish a broad array of objects, including reliquary caskets, crosses, book-covers, croziers, censers and pyxes for the church and a wide range of tableware for the secular market. The Wyvern Collection comprises many pieces of prime importance from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries.

Among the highlights in this volume are two extremely rare Romanesque enamels of c. 1160-70 from the Meuse Valley: the celebrated reliquary triptych probably originally belonging to the Bishop of LiÞge, and a beautiful phylactery (a reliquary designed to be suspended) with scenes from the story of the True Cross, said to have come from the famous abbey of Lobbes. Limoges enamels of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries are particularly well represented, the 65 pieces making up what is undoubtedly now the finest and most comprehensive collection in private hands. The la

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0500024561
• ISBN 13: 9780500024560
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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