La manufacture des lumières, Sculpture in Sèvres
La manufacture des lumières, Sculpture in Sèvres is a hardcover book with 360 full color pages with great illustrations that presents the Sèvres Porcelain Manufacture from Louis XV until the French Revolution.
The Manufacture de Sèvres was created by the will of Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour: Telling the history of sculpture in Sèvres, from its creation to the revolutionary period, is to reveal the evolution of a thematic influenced by the Enlightenment.
The sculpture in Sèvres reports to a careful process starting with a terracotta model to lead to the biscuit porcelain. The biscuit porcelain, invented and adopted by the Manufacture in 1752 experienced immediately an immense success. The surface of the porcelain left rough, unglazed, revealing the whiteness of the porcelain paste and the fine detail, let's allows competing with marble and utilizes fruitful comparisons with statuary.
The artists of the Manufacture were able to create and distribute subjects full of charm, delicacy and life on the themes of childhood and allegory, literature and daily life while innovating in the field of portraiture and political iconography.
The biscuits executed under the direction of the King's sculptors (Falconnet, Pajou, Boizot), sometimes inspired by compositions by Coypel, have reveled the most enthusiasts amateurs.
The book features essays tracing the history, the outreach and the collection of the Manufacture de Sèvres. The techniques and restoration of terracotta rose therein.
The catalog of the exhibited works follows the course of the exhibition, with 95 pieces in terracotta and 115 biscuits porcelain, but also drawings, prints, as well as original plaster models and molds.
Finally, a brief illustrated catalog is available of all the sculptures of the 18th century, stored at the Cité de la céramique, eagerly awaited publication of this exceptional heritage fund.
Contents:
STUDIES
- The sculpture workshop: history, organization and production by Tamara Préhaud
- Porcelain sculpture: between imitation and emulation, by Virginie Desrante
- The sculpture and its techniques in Sèvres, by Véronique Milande and Fabien Perronnet
- Restoration of sculptures: a scale work in Sèvres
by Frédérique Berson, Catherine Lepeltier, Véronique Milande and Mélanie Parmentier - The use of engraving and painting by artists and workshops, by Jean-Gérard Castex
- The biscuit is a sculpture: sculptors in Sèvres, by Guilhem Scherf
- The sculpted dress: fact or invention?, by Pascal Gorguet Ballestaros
- The taste for Children
- Animals
- Mythology and allegory
- The centerpieces
- Contemporary living
- Literary subjects
- Religious works
- The portraits
- The Great Men
- The revolutionary decade
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
The French texts are written by Tamara Préaud and Guilhem Scherf.
Printed in 2015, this book is NEW and is 8-½ inches x 11-½ inches ( 22 cm x 29 cm )
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