. International studio. and embroidery. According to Ernest Lefeburn (Broderie etdentelles: Paris, 1887) the art of embossedembroidery originated in Spain. Some of the such as serpents, lizards, a lion, a boar and othersof evil nature, all fleeing in terror or trying to hidein their underground holes. In contrast with theseanimals of terror are gentle birds, so minutelyexecuted as to permit us to recognize the smaller figures were produced directly on Spanish embroideries, he says, are produced the background, but the larger ones were made in such a high relief that they represent
. International studio. and embroidery. According to Ernest Lefeburn (Broderie etdentelles: Paris, 1887) the art of embossedembroidery originated in Spain. Some of the such as serpents, lizards, a lion, a boar and othersof evil nature, all fleeing in terror or trying to hidein their underground holes. In contrast with theseanimals of terror are gentle birds, so minutelyexecuted as to permit us to recognize the smaller figures were produced directly on Spanish embroideries, he says, are produced the background, but the larger ones were made in such a high relief that they represent sculp- separately and affixed. How the high relief was tures in wood. Such is the great tableau of produced can only be conjectured, but we might Adam and Eve in the Musee de Cluny, the most presume that the filling, in order to retain its prominent example of this kind of work known, form in every detail, must have been hardened, executed with infinite skill and artistic feeling, possibly with wax. three eighteen 1922. She CONVERSION of ST. PAUL embroideredaablecnt in high relief — oj [lie Sixtccntli Century JEAN \lARCIIA\T)~l^-a«v/c,;s7 1 w Marchand,but littli know ntwo years ago,ix today one ofthe most dis-cussed painters of that group
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