| Western Decorative Arts: Volume 1 Contributor(s): Luchs, Alison (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521470684 ISBN-13: 9780521470681 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $79.20 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 1994 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Individual Architects & Firms - General - Art | European - Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General |
| Dewey: 708.153 |
| LCCN: 91015725 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 9" W x 11.4" (4.40 lbs) 357 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 châsse, 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. |