SECONDARY SOURCES

GENERAL ENAMEL SOURCES
V &A links on enameling

Joanna Whaley’s gem article from the V&A:

“The Early Painted Enamels of Limoges in the Walters Art Museum: Historical Context and Observations on past Treatments” __http://www.jstor.org/stable/3180073?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=enamel&searchText=recipes&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Denamel%2Brecipes%26amp%3Bacc%3Don%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3Bfc%3Doff%26amp%3Bgroup%3Dnone&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents__

“ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF EUROPEAN ENAMELED BEAKERS OF THE 13TH AND 14TH CENTURIES”__http://www.jstor.org/stable/24190777?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=enamel&searchText=recipes&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Denamel%2Brecipes%26amp%3Bacc%3Don%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3Bfc%3Doff%26amp%3Bgroup%3Dnone&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents__

“Between Original and Imitation: Four Technical Studies in Basse-Taille Enameling and Re-Enameling of the Historicism Period”__http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161461?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=enamel&searchText=recipes&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Denamel%2Brecipes%26amp%3Bacc%3Don%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3Bfc%3Doff%26amp%3Bgroup%3Dnone&seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents__

“THE TECHNIQUE OF GLASS PAINTING IN MEDIÆVAL AND RENAISSANCE TIMES” http://www.jstor.org/stable/41341598?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=enamel&searchText=recipes&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Denamel%2Brecipes%26amp%3Bacc%3Don%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3Bfc%3Doff%26amp%3Bgroup%3Dnone&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Frick Collection
Leonard Limousin’s pieces: (he used a lot of blues in the portraits)

Met Collection

__http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/limo/hd_limo.htm__ "The dependence of enamel painters on print sources " . Was there a specific artisan responsible for enameling called "enameler" in the 16th century Limoges, France"?
__https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/limo/hd_limo.htm__ “ Images of Antiquity in Limoges Enamels in the French Renaissance. “Enameler”--when does that word come from? Does the enamel workshop separate from the painting workshop?
(survey of Limoges enamel) __http://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/enamels_of_limoges_1100_1350__
(islamic glass and enamel) __https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/enag/hd_enag.htm__
(enamle objects will essays on the heilburn timeline) __https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/keywords/enamel/__
“Some Seventeenth-Century French Painted Enamel Watchcases”: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1513077?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=paper&searchText=seventeenth&searchText=century&searchText=french&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dpaper%2Bseventeenth%2Bcentury%2Bfrench%26amp%3Bprq%3Dpapermaking%2Bfrench%2Bseventeenth%2Bcentury%26amp%3Bgroup%3Dnone%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3Bfc%3Doff%26amp%3Bacc%3Don%26amp%3Bhp%3D25%26amp%3Bso%3Drel&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

BOOKS
Decoration, Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of. Enamel, an Historic Survey to the Present Day. New York: Cooper Union, c1954.
Gauthier, Marie-Madeleine. Medieval Enamels : Masterpieces from the Keir Collection. London: British Museum Publications, c1981.
Museum, Victoria and Albert. A Picture Book of Medieval Enamels. London: Author, 1927.
Speel, Erika. Painted Enamels : An Illustrated Survey 1500-1920. Burlington, VT: Lund Humphries, 2008.
La Niece, Susan., Rohrs, Stefan., and McLeod, Bet. The Heritage of “Maître Alpais” : An International and Interdisciplinary Examination of Medieval Limoges Enamel and Associated Objects. London: British Museum, c2010.
Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md ). Painted Enamels of Limoges. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, c1968.
Wardropper, Ian. Limoges Enamels at the Frick Collection. London: In association with D Giles Limited, 2015.

Enamel Biblio. From BRILL
David Humphrey. "Enamel." Encyclopedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles. Brill Online, 2016. Reference. Columbia University. 18 March 2016 <__http://referenceworks.brillonline.com.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/entries/encyclopedia-of-medieval-dress-and-textiles/enamel-COM_294__> First appeared online: 2012
Arminjon, C. and Bilimoff, M., L'Art du Métal. Vocabulaire technique (Paris: 1998), 188, 196, 202, 208.
Blair, J. and Ramsey, N., ed., English Medieval Industries: craftsmen, techniques, products (Hambledon: 2001), 126-131.
Bowman, S. G. E. and Stapleton, C. P., 'The All Souls Jewel: the enameller's art, deliberate or accidental tinting?', Jewellery Studies 8 (1998), 1-10.
Campbell, M., An Introduction to Medieval Enamels (London: 1983).
Cherry, J., 'The Dunstable Swan jewel', Journal of the British Archaeological Association 32 (1969), 38-53.
Hawthorne, J. and Smith, C., intro. and transl., Theophilus, On Divers Arts (New York: 1979), 126-8.
Lightbown, R., Medieval European Jewellery (London: 1992) 34-5, 45-6, 50, 113, 117, 471-2.
Maryon, H., Metalwork and Enamelling (New York: 1971), 169-99.

Blue Enamels:
“Blue Enamel on Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Window Glass: Deterioration, Microstructure, Composition and Preparation” http://www.jstor.org/stable/20619450?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=enamel&searchText=recipes&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Denamel%2Brecipes%26amp%3Bacc%3Don%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3Bfc%3Doff%26amp%3Bgroup%3Dnone&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Optics and Surface
3.19 mtg with Joseph Ackley (Medieval metal surfaces scholar)

12 c. is the start of alchemy but it blossoms in the 14th adn 15 th c b/c that coincides with when metals become complex (alloys)--> the exception is Byzantine and Islamicate
- The first islamic text is translated into Latin circa 1140→ who is this related to the rise of metal inlay?
See Allie Stielav for Early Modern Metal Plate “The Weight of Plate”
Try also Tim Husband and rd. Marian Rosserowen’s “Shine Like the Sun” on islamic metal arts of spain
See reflets d’or <--Cluny museum

“Exploring the Optical Properties of Picture Varnishes Using Imaging Techniques”, Roy S. Berns and E. René de la Rie, Studies in Conservation Vol. 48, No. 2 (2003), pp. 73-82 Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1506792