Decorative Arts - From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance

Treasures of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Eight Centuries of European Applied Arts When Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1852-1863) was published, what purchasers actually bought was a small printed museum of unusual treasures. With 216 hand-colored copperplate engravings, the publication gives a comprehensive overview of applied arts in Europe from the 9th to the 16th centuries. The objects presented comprise furniture, metalwork, jewelry, tapestries, and works of bookbinding. Carefully selected masterpieces such as the gilt Corvinus goblet, an enamelled saltcellar, and medieval ivory combs are depicted, along with a decorative sword, now lost.