Limoges enamels

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Limoges enamels are richly colored, finely detailed enamel artworks on metal produced in Limoges, France, renowned since the Middle Ages for their religious and decorative objects.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf decorative art
enamelware
metalwork
artForm enamel painting
goldsmithing
associatedWith Gothic art
Renaissance art
Roman Catholic Church
linked to: Roman Catholicism

pilgrimage art
countryOfOrigin France
exportedTo England
Germany
Italy
Scandinavia
Spain
historicalReputation major European center of enamel production
iconography Christ in Majesty
Virgin Mary
biblical scenes
saints
materialUsed copper
enamel
metal
notableCollection British Museum
Louvre Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
notablePeriod 12th century
13th century
Middle Ages
Renaissance
placeOfOrigin Limoges
productionMethod champlevé enamel
painted enamel
styleCharacteristic figurative scenes
fine detail
gilded backgrounds
intricate iconography
rich colors
support copper base
metal plaque
techniqueFeature enamel painted on metal plaques
incised cells filled with enamel (champlevé)
usedFor altar frontals
caskets
crosses
decorative plaques
liturgical vessels
religious objects
reliquaries
secular luxury objects

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Musée National Adrien Dubouché collectionType Limoges porcelain
linked to: Limoges enamels
Essen Minster containsWork Essen cross with large enamels
linked to: Limoges enamels