Author: Robinson, James (and) Emma Edwards
Title: Trésors Médiévaux Du Victoria and Albert Museum: Quand Les Anglais Parlaient Français
Description: Paris, Éditions du Patrimoine, 2023. A dark green softcover book with a heavy spine and a green headband. The title is printed on the front cover and along the spine in gray lettering. There is a gilt image on the front. The back cover has its synoposis typed in white. The end pages are a heavy black paper. Pages: (18), 19-247, (1). The title page is gilted, and the book is filled with many color illustrations. The book is written predominantly in French but the final essay is in English. "Les cinq derniers siècles du Moyen Âge furent, pour l'Angleterre, une période de prospérité et d'exceptionnel raffinement. Ses multiples échanges avec le continent, rendus possibles par des routes commerciales anciennes, fournissaient alors les artisans et les artistes en matériaux luxueux et rares tels que l'ivoire, la soie et les pierres précieuses, mais aussi en sources d'inspiration sans cesse renouvelées. Transitant par les centres cosmopolites qu'étaient alors Constantinople, Venise et Paris, entre autres, les objets et les oeuvres venus d'Angleterre prenaient leur part dans l'incroyable richesse culturelle et artistique de la foisonnante Europe médiévale. Commercce, pèlerinages, abbayes et mariages royaux favorisèrent ainsi un va-et-vient constant de personnes, de marchandises et d'influences stylistiques qui placèrent l'Angleterre au coeur des arts européens du dernier tiers du Moyen Âge. Les manuscrits, objets d'art et de dévotion, bijoux et vêtements liturgiques présents ici, somptueux témoins de l'Angleterre et de l'Europe du XIe au XVe sècle, nous invitent à découvrir l'esthétique, l'ingéniosité et la créativité d'une longue et florissante période qui n'a décidément rien d'un âge obscur." ["The last five centuries of the Middle Ages were, for England, a period of prosperity and exceptional refinement. Its multiple exchanges with the continent, made possible by ancient trade routes, then provided artisans and artists with luxurious and rare materials such as ivory, silk and precious stones, but also with constantly renewed sources of inspiration. Transiting through the cosmopolitan centers of Constantinople, Venice and Paris, among others, objects and works from England took their part in the incredible cultural and artistic wealth of the teeming medieval Europe. Trade, pilgrimages, abbeys and royal marriages thus encouraged a constant coming and going of people, goods and stylistic influences which placed England at the heart of European arts in the last third of the Middle Ages. The manuscripts, objects of art and devotion, jewelry and liturgical vestments present here, sumptuous witnesses of England and Europe from the 11th to the 15th century, invite us to discover the aesthetics, ingenuity and creativity of a long and flourishing period which is definitely not a dark age."]. VG+: A beautiful edition that looks like it has hardley ever been taken off the shelf.

Keywords: European Art ; Victoria and Albert Museum ; ; Collections - European Art


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