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Set in Stone
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Enamels of Limoges
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.
Songs, Scribes, and Society
A new kind of songbook emerged in the later fifteenth century: personalized, portable, and lavishly decorated. Five closely related chansonniers, copied in the Loire Valley region of central France c. 1465-c. 1475, are the earliest surviving examples of this new genre. The Loire Valley Chansonniers preserve the music of such renowned composers as Guillaume Du Fay, Johannes Ockeghem, and Antoine Busnoys. But their importance as musical sources has overshadowed the significance of these manuscripts as artifacts in their own right. This book places the physical objects at center, investigating the means by which they were produced and the broader culture in which they circulated. Jane Alden per...
Gemmes, pierres, métaux, substances utiles
" C'est quasi le mesme de converser avec ceux des autres siècles, que de voyager " écrivait Descartes en 1637, dans le Discours de la méthode. "Ceux des autres siècles" : ... pèlerins, commerçants, explorateurs, voyageurs, naturalistes, savants, philosophes, historiens, théologiens, religieux, encyclopédistes, compilateurs, médecins, joailliers, apothicaires, chimistes, physiciens...personnages de l'Antiquité, du Moyen Age, de la Renaissance, de l'époque moderne... Grecs, Romains, Perses, Berbères... juifs, chrétiens, musulmans... Que représentaient pour eux ces pierres que l'on qualifiait encore récemment de précieuses, comment les trouvaient-ils, quelles propriétés leur a...
