European enamels . THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS AND OF THE MAGI NORTH ITALIAN PAINTED ENAMELS ON SILVEK, IN BRILLIANT TRANSLUCENT COLOURS. LATE FIFTEENTH CENTURY PORTRAIT OF HENRI DALBRET II, KING OF NAVARRE BY LEONARD LIMOUSIN (iN COLOURS) PAINTED ENAMELS and I shall direct chief attention to certain selectedprominent men. The oldest of the Penicaud family is Nardon,a French abbreviation for Leonard. He was bornprobably in the last quarter of the fifteenthcentury, and lived up to about the middle of thesixteenth. The family is supposed to have comefrom the village of Aureil. Unfortunately i
European enamels . THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS AND OF THE MAGI NORTH ITALIAN PAINTED ENAMELS ON SILVEK, IN BRILLIANT TRANSLUCENT COLOURS. LATE FIFTEENTH CENTURY PORTRAIT OF HENRI DALBRET II, KING OF NAVARRE BY LEONARD LIMOUSIN (iN COLOURS) PAINTED ENAMELS and I shall direct chief attention to certain selectedprominent men. The oldest of the Penicaud family is Nardon,a French abbreviation for Leonard. He was bornprobably in the last quarter of the fifteenthcentury, and lived up to about the middle of thesixteenth. The family is supposed to have comefrom the village of Aureil. Unfortunately it isvery difficult to decide what existing works arereally by his hand. There is one signed by him inthe Museum at Cluny, Paris. (For the signature,see Darcel, p. 101.) He appears to have beena rich man, owning many houses. In 1495 he gavea charity for clothing the poor, and he seems tohave lived for about half a century after that. The attribution of other enamels to Nardon isbased on their resemblance to the piec
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