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LABARTE (Jules). HISTOIRE des Arts Industriels au Moyen Âge et à l'Époque de la Renaissance. Paris. 1864-1866. - LABARTE (Jules) HISTOIRE des Arts Industriels au Moyen Âge et à l'Époque de la Renaissance . Paris: Librairie de A. Morel et Cie, 1864-1866. 4 v. de texto; 2 v. de Album: [150] gravs.: il.; 325 mm. First edition of the masterpiece by Jules Labarte (Paris, 1797-1880), an archaeologist and art historian who became the leading expert of his generation in the study of precious medieval and Renaissance objects. Son-in-law of the collector Louis-Fidèle Debruge-Duménil, Labarte devoted his life to the study of decorative arts, and his Histoire des Arts Industriels earned him election in 1871 to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. This work is a fundamental reference in the nineteenth-century historiography of European decorative arts. It covers, in an encyclopedic manner, the entire body of medieval and Renaissance arts considered ”industrial”—a hybrid notion encompassing objects studied either from their raw material, technique, or function: goldsmithing, enamels, ivories, textiles, tapestries, armor, stained glass, mosaics, ivory sculpture, furniture, and ceramics. The main collections and monuments of France, Italy, Germany, England, and Russia were visited and studied directly by the author. The two volumes of Album contain 150 plates, combining color chromolithographs with gold stamping. Rare and highly valued. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate