The Great Ceramist Bernard Palissy's Techniques: Platter in Metropolitan Museum of Art Several weeks ago as I was wandering through the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a relief oval dish by Bernard Palissy (1510 - 1590) shook me (Figure 1). The French ceramist special treatment of three dimensional objects placed on a plate, in other word, a relief sculpture but in arial view. As I looked closer, I realized the artist was depicting a marine life form for the …showed first 75 words of 838 total…

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