biography
pronunciation:
[paleesee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1510–90)
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| biography:
| Potter, born in Agen, SW France. He began as a glass-painter, then settled in Saintes (1539), where he devised new techniques for glazing earthenware. His products, bearing in high-relief plants and animals coloured to represent nature, soon made him famous, and although imprisoned as a Huguenot in 1562, he was speedily released and taken into royal favour. In c.1565 he established his workshop at the Tuileries, and was specially exempted from the St Bartholomew's Day massacre (1572). In 1588 he was again arrested as a Huguenot, and died in prison. |
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