Limoges Gallery

Scenes from the Life of St. Martial, from the Chapel of the Tinel, 1344-45 (fresco)

XIR197290 Scenes from the Life of St. Martial, from the Chapel of the Tinel, 1344-45 (fresco) by Matteo di Giovanetto da Viterbo (fl.1343-66); Palais des Papes, Avignon, France; (add.info.: Saint Martial converting St. Valeria of Limoges; ordination of his successor, Aurelien; thirteen churches founded by Martial;); Italian, out of copyright

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The Valence Casket, c1305-1312, (1881). Creator: W Harbutt

The Valence Casket, c1305-1312, (1881). Etching of an engraved copper casket with gold and champleve enamel, made in the early 14th century, possibly in England, or in Limoges, France. The piece was probably made for a member of the Valence family, and the decoration incorporates six shields; the Royal arms of England, and those of five leading familes, all related: Valence (Earls of Pembroke), Brittany (Dreux), Angouleme, Brabant and Lacy (Earls of Lincoln). From "The South Kensington Museum", a book of engraved illustrations, with descriptions, of the works of art in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (formerly known as the South Kensington Museum). [Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1881]

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The labours of Hercules, 16th century, (1870)

The labours of Hercules, 16th century, (1870). When Hercules went to search for the golden apples of the Hesperides, he wrestled Antaeus to pass through his country of Libya. When Hercules reached the land of the Hyperboreans, where Atlas held the world, Hercules tricked Atlas into getting the apples for him. Faces of a hexagonal enamelled saltcellar executed in Limoges, France, for Francis I. A wood engraving from The Arts of the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix, (London, 1870)

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