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Europe Divided: Huguenot Refugee Art and Culture (Hardback)
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Europe Divided: Huguenot Refugee Art and Culture (Hardback)

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Hardback 320 Pages
Published: 25/11/2021
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This richly illustrated book focuses on the extraordinary international networks resulting from the diaspora of more than 200,000 refugees who left France in the late 17th century to join communities already in exile spread far and wide. 

 First-generation Huguenot refugees included hundreds of trained artists, designers, and craftsmen. Beyond the French borders, they raised the quality of design and workshop practice, passing on skills to their apprentices; sons, godsons, cousins, and to successive generations, who continued to dominate output in the luxury trades. Although silver and silks are the best-known fields with which Huguenot settlers are associated, their significant contribution to architecture, ceramics, design, clock and watchmaking, engraving, furniture, woodwork, sculpture, portraiture, and art education provides fascinating insight into the motivation and resolve of this highly skilled diaspora. Thanks to a sophisticated network of Huguenot merchants, retailers, and bankers who financed their production, their wares reached a global market.

Publisher: V & A Publishing
ISBN: 9781838510121
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 2158 g
Dimensions: 280 x 210 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

'...in-depth, scholarly and lavish...' Jacqueline Riding, The Art Newspaper, Number 345, May 2022 -- '...lavishly illustrated...as well as being the first comprehensive survey of Huguenot achievements, the book is an essential guide to the French Protestant community of London.' Sophie Rhodes, Burlington Magazine, 164, August 2022 --'...this ambitions text, both a genealogy of the crafts and s stylistic analysis of the fine arts, architecture and engineering, will inspire both art historians and historians.' Philippa Woodcock, Huguenot Society Journal 2022

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