Palissy the Potter
Palissy the Potter
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GBPThis two-volume biography of the sixteenth-century French potter and natural scientist Bernard Palissy (c.1510–c.1590) was published in 1852, the year after the Great Exhibition, in which Palissy's extraordinary art had been brought before the Victorian public by Minton's highly decorated 'Palissy wares'. Henry Morley (1822–94) trained in medicine but later became an author and editor, writing for Charles Dickens among others. Here he gathers together all the material then available about Palissy, including the potter's own writings and a contemporary biography. Palissy was among the many European ceramicists who attempted to reproduce Chinese porcelain; his lack of success drove his family into poverty, but his highly ornamented wares, encrusted with sea creatures, came to the attention of Catherine de' Medici, who gave him her patronage and protection (he was a convinced Protestant). After her death he was sent to the Bastille, and died there.
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April 2015Paperback
9781108078061
334 pages
216 × 140 × 19 mm
0.43kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Birth, parentage, and early education
- 2. Palissy obtains some knowledge of the world
- 3. More knowledge of the world
- 4. Palissy studies the philosophers
- 5. Commotions in the church
- 6. The French reformer
- 7. Palissy married and settled
- 8. Pottery three centuries ago
- 9. Palissy resolves to conquer for himself new ground
- 10. A truce
- 11. Second Palissian war for the discovery of white enamel
- 12. A heretic is burnt at Saintes
- 13. Palissy becomes a potter
- 14. The reformed church at Saintes
- 15. Affairs of France
- 16. Palissy publishes a book
- 17. Palissy in sunshine, and France under a cloud
- 18. The outbreak of the storm.
