apenkool #expositiondesartsdecoratives van Hispano Moreske keramiek en

van Hispano Moreske keramiek en ook wel van renaissance Italiaanse keramiek

Deze grote vaas van Clement Massier dateerd van 1900

a fist fighter

so we know that this work of art was made in 1900

and from 1895 also at the new Salon National de Beaux Arts

apenkool #expositiondesartsdecoratives van Hispano Moreske keramiek enThis heavy gilt bronze vase by Georges Engrand has an enigmatic representation of three faces of young women emerging from behind a drapery, surrounded by 4 monkeys making a commotion. The faces of the beautiful women are masks and the monkey heads are depicted ugly. It is as if the beauty and youth of the beautiful women magnifies the rudeness and ugliness of the monkeys. It is a kind of allegory on the contrasts between beauty and ugliness, or the