Jean-Valentin Morel and the revival of the Lapidary's art: Isabelle Lucas describes the career of the remarkable French goldsmith who pioneered the taste for hard-stone vessels in renaissance taste. The article marks the acquisition by the Indianapolis Museum of Art of one of Morel's masterpieces, made in 1854-55 for the duc de Luynes.

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The Indianapolis Museum of Art has purchased a splendid bloodstone cup with enamelled gold mounts made by the French goldsmith Jean-Valentin Morel.' Created in 1854-55 for the duc de Luynes, an eminent connoisseur who admired Morel's talents, it represents the culmination of a long-matured skill and ranks as one of Morel's lapidary masterpieces (Fig. 2). a carver of precious stones, a goldsmith and a jeweller: one by one he acquired all the skills needed to revive this branch of the luxury arts, which had been at its height in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Although he ...

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