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Author: Ben van den Bercken Publisher: ISBN: 9789088905063 Category : Gems Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book discuss different types of engraved gems in the collection of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden, their makers, users and re-users, combining archaeological, culture historical and geological perspectives.
Author: Ben van den Bercken Publisher: ISBN: 9789088905063 Category : Gems Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book discuss different types of engraved gems in the collection of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden, their makers, users and re-users, combining archaeological, culture historical and geological perspectives.
Author: Paweł Gołyźniak Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1789695406 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 618
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This book studies small but highly captivating artworks from antiquity – engraved gemstones. These objects had multiple applications, and the images upon them captured snapshots of people's beliefs, ideologies, and everyday occupations. They provide a unique perspective on the propaganda of Roman political leaders, especially Octavian/Augustus.
Author: Genevra Kornbluth Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 9780271042886 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 282
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Medieval Europe offers a pageant of almost incredible richness: King Arthur and his round table, demons and cathedrals, Charlemagne and his paladins. The Carolingian culture of the late eighth to late tenth centuries (in what is now France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and northern Italy) offers more than its fair share of achievements. This heavily illustrated study examines one revealing legacy of Charlemagne's heirs and his people--the Carolingian gems of rock crystal, jet, and agate engraved with complex figural scenes, which have never before been studied as a group. These objects have been largely ignored in the scholarship of medieval art, partly because of the difficulty of access. Genevra Kornbluth assembles for the first time all twenty surviving gems, from small seal matrices to the forty-one-figure "Susanna crystal" in London, along with information about lost works. The unique features of each gem are made visible in over 200 detailed black-and-white photographs, often highly magnified and produced using new techniques developed to record transparent engraving. Kornbluth fully analyzes the techniques of manufacture, style, chronology, iconography, and patronage of each gem and examines their social functions, the organization and status of the artisans who created them, and relations between media. The gems are presented as evidence of the rich diversity of the Carolingian culture, rather than as reflections of an artistic program dictated by the imperial courts; they are also seen to be essentially new creations, drawing on earlier visual traditions but adapting their sources to address contemporary concerns.
Author: Idit Sagiv Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology ISBN: 9781784918699 Category : Animals in art Languages : en Pages : 185
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A comprehensive study of the depictions of animals and their significance on Greek and Roman gems. The work examines the associations between animal depictions and the type of gemstone and its believed qualities. The study also compares the representation of animals on gems to other, larger media, and analyses the differences.
Author: Christopher Entwistle Publisher: British Museum Press ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 286
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This volume collects together many diverse papers, interdisciplinary in nature, addressing issues such as typology and sourcing of gemstones.
Author: Claudia Wagner Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers ISBN: 9781781300626 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 304
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The creation of miniature intaglios - or incised carvings - which could be impressed on clay or wax was one of the earliest crafts of civilisation. To this the Greeks added relief cameos, while comparable skills were lavished on the decoration of metal finger rings. These artefacts record subjects of significance for their period and place but are also the direct expression of an artist's skills and imagination. Engraved gems were collected first by the ancient Romans and then throughout the Renaissance were a source for knowledge of `classical' subjects and styles, when they were copied - from Michelangelo to Rubens - by the foremost artists of the day. The gemstones explored here are from a distinguished collection made in the earlier twentieth century by a notable connoisseur of ancient art. Many originate from named older European collections and were previously unknown to scholars and collectors. The authors have sought to offer a balanced selection of earlier eastern and Greek stones, alongside others from the neo-classical era. The book offers a survey of the finest products of the gems craft over millennia.
Author: Ben van den Bercken
Author: Ben van den Bercken
Author: Paweł Gołyźniak
Author: Genevra Kornbluth
Author: Idit Sagiv
Author: Dimitris Plantzos
Author: Martin Henig
Author: Christopher Entwistle
Author: Gisela M. A. Richter
Author: John Boardman
Author: Claudia Wagner