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Title Enamels of Limoges : 1100-1350 / John P. O'Neill, editor in chief ; translations from the French by Sophie Hawkes, Joachim Neugroschel, and Patricia Stirneman
Published New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by H. Abrams, [1996]
©1996

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Description 478 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Contents Transatlantic Crossings of the Art of Limoges / Marie-Madeleine Gauthier -- The Limousin and Limoges in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries / Bernadette Barriere -- 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 and Mark T. Wypyski -- Catalogue. I. The Birth of Enameling in Aquitaine (1100-1160). II. Opus lemovicense and the Creation of a European Taste (1160-1190). III. The Abbey of Grandmont (12th-13th century) -- Introduction / Jean-Rene Gaborit. IV. Limoges in Transition (1190-1230). V. The Last Flowering (1240-1320) -- Heraldy and Limoges / Michel Pastoureau. VI. Gilded Images: Sacred and Funerary Sculpture (13th-14th century) -- Introduction / Beatrice de Chancel-Bardelot
Appendixes: Tombs of Limoges Work / Beatrice de Chancel-Bardelot -- Appendixes: Techniques and Materials in Limoges Enamels / Isabelle Biron, Pete Dandridge and Mark T. Wypyski
Summary 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
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
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
Analysis Enamel and enameling
Enamel and enameling, Medieval
Notes "This publication is issued in conjunction with Enamels of Limoges, 1100-1350, held at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, October 23, 1995-January 22, 1996, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 5-June 16, 1996."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-468) and index
Subject Enamel and enameling -- France -- Limoges -- Exhibitions.
Enamel and enameling, Medieval -- France -- Limoges -- Exhibitions.
Genre/Form Catalogs.
Author O'Neill, John Philip, 1931-
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Musée du Louvre.
LC no. 96162557
ISBN 0810965003 (Abrams)
0870997580
0870997599 (paperback)