Manet/Velázquez

by Gary Tinterow, Geneviève Lacambre, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Musée d'Orsay

2003 · Metropolitan Museum of Art

Here approximately two hundred works by French and Spanish artists chart the development of this cultural influence and map a fascinating shift in the paradigm of painting, from Idealism to Realism, from Italy to Spain, from Renaissance to Baroque. Above all, these images demonstrate how direct contact with Spanish painting fired the imagination of nineteenth-century French artists and brought about the triumph of Realism in the 1860s, and with it a foundation for modern art."--BOOK JACKET.

Enamels of Limoges

by John Philip O'Neill, Musée du Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

1996 · Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.