Brilliant effects : a cultural history of gem stones and jewellery / Marcia Pointon.
Pointon, Marcia R.
2009
GT2250 .P65 2009 (Mapit)
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Brilliant effects : a cultural history of gem stones and jewellery / Marcia Pointon.
Author
Pointon, Marcia R.
ISBN
9780300142785 hardcover alkaline paper
0300142781 hardcover alkaline paper
Publication Details
New Haven [Conn.] : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, c2009.
Language
English
Description
ix, 426 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Call Number
GT2250 .P65 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
391.7
Summary
Pointon examines how small-scale and valuable artefacts have figured in systems of belief and in political and social practice in Europe since the Renaissance.
Note
Pointon examines how small-scale and valuable artefacts have figured in systems of belief and in political and social practice in Europe since the Renaissance.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-410) and index.
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Something rich and strange
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Chinese whispers : James Cox's Jewellery Museum-London in the 1770s
Toys and automata : Jaquet-Droz and Leschot-Neuchâtel, Paris, London in the 1780s
The Treasury of the Santa Casa at Loreto and its English visitors
Secular memorials : mourning and memory in hair jewellery
Lapidary loves
Crystalline terminations.

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