Looking at European Ceramics: A Guide to Technical Terms fantasy Charissa Bremer-David is curator in

Charissa Bremer-David is curator in the Department of Decorative Arts at the Getty Museum and a coauthor of Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J

74 b/w illustrations

The Getty Museum's collection of drawing was begun in 1981 with the purchase of a Rembrandt nude and has since become an important repository of European works from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century

A resin depiction of Aphrodite: the goddess of love

Looking at European Ceramics: A Guide to Technical Terms fantasy Charissa Bremer-David is curator inDavid Harris Cohen and Catherine Hess Provides definitions of terms related to the techniques, processes, and materials used in the production of European ceramics from the Middle Ages through the beginning of the twentieth century. Illustrations of works in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Museum accompany the concise and readable explanations. "A handy source of quick, understandable information." Academic Library Book