Book Review

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European Decorative Arts, 1400-1600: An Annotated Bibliography (G K Hall Reference Books)

by Patrick M. De Winter

Hardcover: 543 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 9.75 x 1.50 x 6.50

Publisher: Gale Group; (February 1, 1988)

ASIN: 081618612X

 

 

I recently recieved this book via ILL and was pleasently surprised by the quality resource it is. An annotated bibliography is a listing of books and journal articles on a particular topic with a short review written about each one.  In this case Decorative Arts covers a WIDE subject matter, including armor, furniture, tablewear, tapestries, clothing, silverwear, basically anything tangible that could be decorated and they have it. It covers France, Germany, Italy, Spanish and quite a bit of Hungarian, Czech resources too.

 

Some of the gems that I gleaned from it, that I need to get via ILL are:

 

Europäisches Kunsthandwerk vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart: Neuerwerbungen 1959-1969. Exhibition catalog by Franz-Adrian Dreier et al. Berlin 179pp, 16 color plates 153 b&w figs.

 

Die Sammlung Clemens Catalog of the exhibition held at the Overstolzenhaus, Rheingasse, by Brigitte Klesse, Hanns-Ulrich haedeke and Heinke Griese. Cologne, Kunstgewerbemuseum, 1963. 166 pp, 65 b&w pls.

 

The Splendor of Dresden: Five Centuries of Art Collecting. Exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Catalog edited by J. Carter Brown, Philippe de Montebello and Ian McKibbin White. New York Museum of Art, 1978. 278 pp, 29 color figs, 248 b&w figs.

 

Jewelry

Egger, Gerhart. Bürgerlicher Schmuck: 15. bis 20 Jahrhundert. Munich Georg D.W. Callwey, 1984. 222 pp, 52 color illus. 413 b&w figs.

 

Jewelry made for the upper middle class from the 15^th to the 20^th century.

 

Hackenbroch, Yvonne. “Jewellery of the Court of Albrecht V at Munich” Connoisseur 165 (1967): 74-82, 1 color fig, 30 b&w figs

 

Hackenbroch, Yvonne. “Renaissance Pendants after Designs by Jost Amman.” Connoisseur 160(1965): 58-65, 25 b&w figs.

 

Secular Plate and Table Manners

 

Bailey, C.T.P. Knives and Forks. London and Boston: Medici Society, 1927. 16 pp, 3 color pls, 72 b&w figs.

 

Benker, Gertrud. Alte Bestecke: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Tischkultur. Munich: George D.W. Callwey, 1978. 184 pp, 379 b&w figs, 28 text figs.

 

Hernmark, Carl. The Art of the European Silversmith, 1430-1830. 2 vols. London and New York. Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1977. vol 1 441 pp, 134 b&w figs; vol 2. 1001 b&w figs on 386pls

 

Textiles

Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Exhibition Catalog by Rebecca Martin. Cleveland, Indiana University Press. 1985, 68pp, 4 color pls, 41 b&w figs.

 

Wescher, H. “Fustian Weaving in South Germany from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century” Ciba Review´64 (1948): 2339-49, 15 b&w figs

 

 

Simon, Hertha “Ein Jaghut des 16. Jahrhunderts” Zeitschrift für historische Waffen-und Kostümkunde n.s. 6(1937-39): 39-40, 1 b&w fig.

 

Hunting cap of woven textile acquired by the Schlossmuseum in 1933 and said to date of ca. 1450-75 and is either German or Spanish.

 

 

Post, Paul “Des Kostüme der deutschen Renaissance 1480-1550” Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums (1954-59):21-42, 30 b&w figs.

     

 

      Study of the fashions and accoutrements of the German nobility and burghers- both men and women- in the period 1480-1550, based on contemporary paintings and prints.

 

Wilckens, Leonie von. “Kleiderverzeichnisse aus zwei Jahrhunderts in den Nachlassinventaren wohlhabender Nurnbergerinnen” Waffen-und Kostümekunde 21 (1979): 25-41, 11 illus.

      Presents lists of clothing from inventories and a trousseau of seven wealthy women of Nuremberg between 1537 and 1701. Descriptions of outer garments, underwear, fashionable accessories with headgear, gloves, stockings, handkerchiefs, bags, fans, etc., and jewelry; monetary value presented for each article of clothing. Changes of fashion in Nuremberg discussed. Glosary.

 

 

 

 

Furniture

Rava, Carlo Enrico. La sedia Milan. Gorlich 1964. 222pp, 8 color pls, 609 b&w figs.

      History of chairs in Europe. Thirty page introduction and series of plates with descriptive captions.

 

Windisch-Graetz, Franz. Möbel Europas: Die Möbelformen vom Altertium bis zur Mitte des newunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Tübingen: Ernst Wasmuth, 1951, 80 pp, 683 b&w figs.

 

      Survey of medieval furniture produced in Europe with emphasis on stools, choir stalls, chairs, thrones, tables, beds, cabinets, chests and the differing manufacturing techniques.

 

 

Europäische Möbel von der Gotik bis zum Jugendstil. Catalog by Margrit Baurer, Peter Märker and Annaliese Ohm. Frankfurt, Museum für Kunstandwerk, 1976. 195 pp, 23 color pls, 253 b&w figs.

 

 

Möller, Lieselotte. Der Wrangelschrank und die verandten süddeutschen Intarsienmöbel des 16. Jahrhunderts. Berlin: Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft, 1956. 194 pp. 1 color pl. 240 b&w figs.

 

      Most complete study of intarsia cabinets and table tops as well as paneling produced in South Germany (mostly Augsburg) and Tyrol, during the second half of the 16^th century. Includes a catalog of 82 typical examples. Valuable illustration.