The Art of the Shoe电子书

Introduction

The Shoe: Object of Civilization and Object of Art

From Antiquity up to our days

Prehistory

Antiquity

The Shoe in Ancient Eastern Civilizations

Ancient Egypt

The Bible: The Shoe in the Old Testament

The Shoe in the New Testament:

The Sandals of Jesus

Antiquity – The Copts

Greece

The Etruscans

Rome

The Gallo-Romans

The Byzantine empire

The Middle Ages

The Legend of Saint Crispin and Saint Crispinian

The Renaissance

17th century

18th century

19th century

Shoes and Poverty

From shoemaker to head of a company

The Shoe in the 20th century

Shoemakers of Yesterday and Today

Hellstern

Pierre Yantorny

The Most Expensive Shoes in the World

André Perugia,

Last of the Great Renaissance Artists, First of the Moderns

Ferragamo

Alfred Argence

Julienne, Female Shoemaker

La Maison Massaro

A Shoemaking Dynasty

Sarkis Der Balian

The Immortal Shoemaker

Berluti

Three Generations of Artists

Roger Vivier

Couturier of the Shoe

François Villon (1911-1997)

Andrea Pfister

Happy Feet

The rise of the Shoe Industry Romans is the city of fine shoes

The two great names of the 20th century:

Joseph Fenestrier

Robert Clergerie

Charles Jourdan

From a workshop on Côte Macel (Butchers' Hill) in Romans to the Empire State Building in New York

Stéphane Kélian

Specialist in Elegant Hand Braiding

Jean Tchilinguirian

Tradition and Know-How

John Lobb

Weston

Babybotte Baby Booties

Pompeï, Shoemaker for the Stage and Screen

The Pompeï workshop was a family affair

Le Salon Midec

International Footwear Fashions

L'Escarpin de Cristal (The Crystal Pump)

The C.I.D.I.C. Grant

Shoes from Around the World

The Ottoman Empire

Persia

India

China

North America

Shoes Worn by Celebrities

Shoe of Henry II de Montmorency

Madame de Pompadour's Shoes

Or the triumph of the heel under Louis XV

The Shoe of Marie-Antoinette

Shoes of Saint-Jean-Marie Vianney,

Parish Priest of Ars

Gœthe's Slippers

Sissi's Shoes

Shoes of the Countess of Castiglione

(Florence 1837-Paris 1899)

Shoes Worn by Louis Pasteur

Ankle Boots of La Belle Otéro, a Belle Epoque Beauty

Boots Worn by Opera Singer Ninon Vallin

Once upon a time, there was a voice: “Mârouf, the Shoemaker of Cairo”

Shoes Worn by Maurice Chevalier

“The Symphony of the Wooden Soles”

Shoes Worn by Charles Trenet

“Y a d'la joi!” (“Life is good!”)

Studio Shoes Worn by César (1921–1998)

Donated to the International Shoe Museum, Romans, by the artist.

Shoes Worn by Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Painter and photographer (1894-1986)

Mouna Ayoub:

The journey of a Haute Couture collector

Shoes Worn by Paul Bocuse and Pierre Troisgros

The Stories Shoes Tell

Theresa's Doll Shoes

The Well-Digger's Boots

Zoya's Shoes

Mathilde's Ankle Boots

Toine's clogs

The Shoe in Literature

The Papyrus of Herodas Mimes

Mainard – La Bruyère – La Fontaine

Restif de La Bretonne

Chateaubriand, Atala

“The Mocassins of Chactas”

Gustave Flaubert, Salammbo

Emile Zola, Au bonheur des dames

(Ladies' Delight)

Gérard de Nerval, Sylvie Alain Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes

(The Wanderer)

Pierre Loti, Madame Chrysanthème

“In Japan: Introductions…”

André Chamson, Les hommes de la route

(The Road Workers)

Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

Pearl S. Buck, East Wind, West Wind,

“Peony”

Charles Perrault

Cinderella

Puss in Boots

“From the Mill to the Castle”

Petit Poucet

(Little Thumb)

The Countess of Ségur, Good Little Girls

“The Shoe of Madame Fichini”

Carlo Collodi: The Adventures of Pinocchio

“Feet and Shoes”

Marcel Aymé, Les contes du Chat Perché

(Tales of the Perched Cat)

The Shoe and Art

Henri Terres

Glossary

Bibliography

Table of Contents

Note of Thanks

Appendix

The story of Rhodopis

Empress Foot

The Outlawed Poulaine

Bertrade with the Big Feet

The Legend of Bethmale's Boots

(from the Saint Girons area, county Foix in Ariège)

Shoemaker Brothers after Saint Crispin

In the footsteps of Saint Crispin and Saint Crispinian

The Origin of the Godillot Shoe

Shoemakers and Shoe Repairmen

A Brief History

The Swann Club

Olga Berluti's Lessons in Polishing

René Caty

The Continuity of Myths

Cinderella in China