The Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume XV: Decorative Arts
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| Title | : | The Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume XV: Decorative Arts |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.55 (825 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691154902 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2012-07-22 |
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This volume catalogs more than four hundred decorative objects in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, including painted enamels, snuffboxes, porcelain, pottery, ceramics, jewelry, furniture, cast metal, and textiles from throughout Europe and Asia, with the majority dating from the late seventh century to the twentieth century. Highlights include a a superb seventeenth-century oval-shaped watch decorated with enamels by the master Susanne de Court of Limoges; a dazzling domed cup supported by a carved alabaster figure of a bearded Turk, replete with jewels and precious stones, crafted in early eighteenth-century Germany; and a French secretaire from the 1780s set with painted enamels from the famed Sèvres Manufactory. Provenance information, exhibition histories, and references are provided, and selected comparative illustrations are incorporated. The volume also includes a bibliography and an index.
Editorial : "This is a handsome and authoritative volume."--Choice
All of this is very ably discussed by the author, who mentions, but does not elaborate on, the psychological interpretations of the visceral violence of Artemisia's depiction as a precipitate of her notorious rape. If the prices were lower it would be easier, of course, but one can understand the price given the very high production quality here. The European furniture-many Italian Renaissance pieces including an array of rather heavy cassone-occupies around 100 pages of this catalog.
The objects are generally of superior quality and attest to the Lehman's refined taste. The corrective realignment of art history that has occurred under the aegis of a generation or so of feminist-oriented scholarship has made this image one of the most familiar created by a woman artist of the past. These range from Lucas Cranach the Elder (c. It is quite convenient to have this material gathered together; overall, a useful and very nicely produced little study.. No wonder it was too much for
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