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French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes
"Each object is described and analyzed in terms of its provenance and published history, as well as its construction, materials, and conservation. With its painstaking attention to detail, this volume is the definitive catalogue of the Getty Museum's collection of French Baroque furniture and will be of interest to scholars, conservators, and all students of French decorative arts."--BOOK JACKET.
Bronzes to Bullets
This text tells the story of French statues and monuments that were melted down and shipped to Nazi munitions factories during the Second World War.
French Bronzes in the Wallace Collection
"The Wallace Collection has long been celebrated for its outstanding array of French 17th and 18th century works of art." "This publication features over fifty of the finest French bronzes in the Wallace Collection, all of them reproduced in colour, mostly for the first time. Besides a selection of statuettes, which form the greater part of the individual entries, there are examples of relief plaques, vases, ecclesiastical statuary and portrait busts. Each entry is further illustrated by images of related works of art. There are introductory essay on the History of the French Bronze Statuette to c.1815; on the Taste of the Founders of the Wallace Collection for French Bronzes; and on the Techniques of Casting and Finishing French Bronze Statuettes c.1565-c.1815. A brief Bibliography and Biographies of the principal sculptors and craftsmen mentioned are also included." --Book Jacket.
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Bronzes to Bullets
Details the process between October 1941 and August 1944 whereby French cities, towns, and villages lost most of their public bronze statuary. Conservative estimates are between 1,527 and 1,750 decorative and commemorative monuments in the public domain were removed and destroyed to foster German munitions factories for Hitler's war machines. War memorials and monuments on church property are excluded in this study.
Bronze Age Cultures in France
Originally published in 1957, this book presents a comprehensive study of Bronze Age cultures in France, in their later phases from the thirteenth to the seventh century BC, placing emphasis on the role of 'Tumulus and Urnfield culture'. Avoiding an overly broad approach, the text focuses in the main on eastern and north-eastern France 'as it was there that the new cultures first rooted, and thence new ideas were diffused'. Numerous illustrative figures are included and notes are incorporated throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the Bronze Age, archaeology and the prehistory of the French region.
