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portada Palissy the Potter 2 Volume Set: Palissy the Potter - Volume 2 (Cambridge Library Collection - art and Architecture) (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Year
2015
Language
English
Pages
366
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9781108078078

Palissy the Potter 2 Volume Set: Palissy the Potter - Volume 2 (Cambridge Library Collection - art and Architecture) (in English)

Henry Morley (Author) · Cambridge University Press · Paperback

Palissy the Potter 2 Volume Set: Palissy the Potter - Volume 2 (Cambridge Library Collection - art and Architecture) (in English) - Henry Morley

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Synopsis "Palissy the Potter 2 Volume Set: Palissy the Potter - Volume 2 (Cambridge Library Collection - art and Architecture) (in English)"

This two-volume biography of the sixteenth-century French potter and natural scientist Bernard Palissy (c.1510–c.1590) was published in 1852, the year after the Great Exhibition, in which Palissy's extraordinary art had been brought before the Victorian public by Minton's highly decorated 'Palissy wares'. Henry Morley (1822–94) trained in medicine but later became an author and editor, writing for Charles Dickens among others. Here he gathers together all the material then available about Palissy, including the potter's own writings and a contemporary biography. Palissy was among the many European ceramicists who attempted to reproduce Chinese porcelain; his lack of success drove his family into poverty, but his highly ornamented wares, encrusted with sea creatures, came to the attention of Catherine de' Medici, who gave him her patronage and protection (he was a convinced Protestant). After her death he was sent to the Bastille, and died there.

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