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Brilliant effects : a cultural history of gem stones and jewellery / Marcia Pointon.

Pointon, Marcia R.
2009
GT2250 .P65 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
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
Published
New Haven [Conn.] : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
Description
ix, 426 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 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.
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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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'A fine brilliant glittering on the little finger'
Jewel boxes in pictorial narratives
Something rich and strange
Marie-Antoinette and the diamond necklace affair
Charlotte of England, Warren Hastings, and the dangers of diamonds
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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