Western Decorative Arts, Part I: Medieval, Renaissance, and Historicizing Styles Including Metalwork, Enamels, and Ceramics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521470681)

This volume is one of several that examine the National Gallery of Art's distinguished collection of decorative arts. 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 historicizing objects in a wide variety of media, encompassing metalwork, stained glass, enamels, ceramics, and jewels. Among the highlights are a Limoges reliquary ch龝se, a Mosan lion aquamanile, thirty-eight pieces in a cohesive group of Italian maiolica, three of the very rare French 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.

Author: Rudolf Distelberger, Alison Luchs, Philippe Verdier
ISBN-10: 0521470684
ISBN-13: 9780521470681
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/21/1993
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 4.40lbs
Size: 11.40h x 9.00w x 1.20d