Bernard Palissy
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Bernard Palissy was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain. He is best known for his so-called "rusticw
Bernard Palissy, self-portrait in faience, reproduced in a lithograph
Detail of a Palissy still-life platter of c. 1550 (see below for the whole piece)
Workshop of Palissy, rusticware platter, 1575–1600
Rusticware featuring casts of sea life (1550)
Huguenots
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The Huguenots are a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of burgomaster Besançon Hugues, who defended
Bernard Palissy
…Bernard Palissy (French pronunciation: ; c. 1510 – c. 1589) was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain. He is best known for his so-called…
Persecution of the Waldensians in the massacre of Mérindol in 1545
Huguenots massacring Catholics in the Michelade in Nîmes
John Everett Millais' painting, A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of French Protestants (1572). It was the climax of the French Wars of Religion, which were brought to an end by the Edict of Nantes (1598). In 1620, persecution was renewed and continued until the French Revolution in 1789.