This comprehensive two-volume catalogue covers the outstanding collection of English and French medieval stained glass in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Written by curator Jane Hayward, t
The French Revolution not only deposed the monarchy, putting an end to the ?ancien regime,” but its vengeful fires destroyed thousands of chateaux, the symbols?and residences?of the upper classes. The
In all eras, objects of everyday life are taken for granted: they are used and discarded, rarely dicussed or preserved. It is, generally, a period's extraordinary works of art and architecture that ha
