RENAISSANCE ART French Pottery Enamel Paintings

Description: Enamel on Metal, Pottery Painting and Metal Mosaic French Renaissance Another Fine Quality Print from Martin2001 Print Specifics: Type of print: Lithograph - Original antique printYear of printing: not indicated in the print - actual: 1888 Publisher: Dolmetsch / Verlag von J. Hoffmann, Stuttgart. Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). The colors in the print include metallic gold. Dimensions: 9 x 13.5 inches, including blank margins (borders) around the image. 1 inch = 2,54 cm.Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)Reverse side: Blank Legend to the illustrations in the print: It was at Limoges that enamel-painting attained a high degree of perfection. Figs. 1—10 show us not only smaller and simpler gold-decorations, but also complicated scroll-work, even figural representations painted in this way, the choice of colors being almost unlimited. The difference in the productions of our period and those of the middle ages consists chiefly in the circumstance that the metal, forming the underground, was not visible. Most frequently we find enamel painted in grisaille, gold being always put on, whilst colored representations, when required, were executed with semi-transparent vitrifiable pigments. Figs 11l and 12 represent two faience gable-heads very much favored, especially in palaces, as a finish of gables, towers etc. Among the fayence-painters of the 16th century Bernard Palissy, of whose works we give some specimens in Figs. 13—18, was of great importance for French ornamentation. The decorations of his fayences are not flat, but consisting brilliantly colored reliefs of a warm and vigorous tone. He brought in fashion especially those plates, on which various animals of the water, earth and air are painted with remarkable fidelity to nature. But complete pictures also owe him their origin. Finally his ornaments, executed in but few colors, are to be reckoned among the most graceful of French Renaissance. A century and a half after Palissy another artist attained a certain celebrity at the French court, viz. Andre Charles Boule, cabinet-maker to King Louis XVI. He had a special skill in decorating objects of any kind with inlaid work. From him marquetry composed of different metals, mother-of-pearl, ivory, tortoise-shell, fine woods etc. is commonly called Boule-Work. (Fig. 21.) Fig. 1-10. Decorations on Limoges-vessels (copper-enamelling), Fig. 1 in private possession. Fig. 2 from the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre at Paris. Fig. 3 and 4 in the Bavarian National Museum at Munich. 11 and 12. Fayence gable-heads. 13—18. Decorations on fayence vessels by Bernard Palissy. From the Musee du Louvre in Paris and in private possession. 19 and 20. Borders on fayence plates from Rouen. 21. Little Boule-chest in the Musee du Louvre at Paris. Notes: Green color 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed.The print detail is much sharper than the photo of the print. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998.Five-star service.

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