The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art - Hardcover

Lanmon, Dwight P.; Whitehouse, David B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691034052 ISBN 13: 9780691034058

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Among the exquisite pieces of glass in Robert Lehman's collection are many that exhibit the consummate skill of Venetian glassmakers and explain why Venetian glass was so coveted in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The factories in northern Europe that produced glass a la façon de Venise are represented as well. Robert Lehman also acquired perhaps the richest American collection of eighteenth-century lampworked glass figurines, which are usually attributed to Nevers, France. Smaller groups of reverse-painted panels and ancient Roman and early Islamic glass round out the 136 objects catalogued in this volume.

This is the sixth to be published in a projected series of fifteen volumes that will catalogue the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

About this title

About the Author:

Dwight P. Lanmon is Director of the Winterthur Museum. David B. Whitehouse, who contributed the entries on Roman and Islamic glass, is Director of the Corning Museum of Glass.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0691034052
• ISBN 13: 9780691034058
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 360