Figures & faces The art of jewelry
Book - 2018
Jewelry has always been a vehicle for the deepest of human emotions: remembrance, faith, devotion, love, belonging, and mourning. The human figure has long been a source of inspiration and a means of expression for jewelers, and it is perhaps the most intimate and involving of subjects. Following on from the magnificent Flora and Fauna, Figures is the third book in a series devoted to the splendid jewelry collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. The museum's collection begins in the Byzantine era and ranges through the medieval and Renaissance periods and beyond, with mythological figures and biblical scenes represented on pendants and rings.
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- Published
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London ; New York :
Thames & Hudson Ltd
2018.
- Language
- English
French - Main Author
- Other Authors
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- Physical Description
- 127 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page 126).
- ISBN
- 9780500021811
- Preface
- Foreword
- Discreet Effigies
- The Bejeweled Body
- Mythological Figures
- Figures of Devotion
- Figures of Love
- Historical Faces
- Personal Portraits
- Figures of Fantasy
- The Art of the Vanitas
- Selected Bibliography