The collection of enamels in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art comprises forty-five works by many of the major enamel painters of the Renaissance.The museum's collection is catalogued in detailed entries that include photographic documentation of all decorated surfaces, as well as comparative illustrations of the printed sources from which the images were derived.

Describes the processes involved in painting in enamel, the social background against which the art developed, and the membership and organization of the Limoges, France, workshops.

A sumptuously illustrated book featuring 46 examples from The Frick's remarkable collection of French fifteenth-, sixteenth and seventeenth century enamels.