Engraved Gems: Survivals and Revivals

by: Brown, C.M.

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Contains 17 papers on the history of engraved gems (including both intaglios and cameos) from ancient Greece through the nineteenth century. They address the influence of Greek and Roman gems on postclassical painters, sculptors and gem engravers as well as the collecting of gems in the Middle Ages, Renaissance and later periods

Contents:
Preface / Henry A. Millon
Introduction / Clifford Malcolm Brown
Classical gems and media interaction / John Boardman
Et in arcadia ego: satyrs and maenads in the ancient world and beyond / Martin Henig
Early Christian gems and their rediscovery / Jeffrey Spier
Carolingian engraved gems: 'golden Rome is reborn'? / Genevra Kornbluth
'Interpretatio christiana': gems on the Shrine of the three kings in Cologne / Erika Zwierlein-Diehl
Isabella d'Este Gonzaga's Augustus and Livia cameo and the 'Alexander and Olympias' gems in Vienna and Saint Petersburg / Clifford Malcolm Brown
The Renaissance cameo-cut vase and its antecedents / Hugh Tait
The use of cameos in the mounts of sixteenth-century Milanese pietre dure vases / Kirsten Aschengreen Piacenti
Glyptic sources of Renaissance art / Toby Yuen
The symbolism of stones: engraved gems at the Medici grand-ducal court (1537-1609) / Martha McCrory
Reproducing and reading gems in Rubens' circle / David Jaffé
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc and antique glyptic / Marjon van der Meulen
Engraved gems and northern European humanists / Marianne Maaskant-Kleibrink
Giant cameos of the late eighteenth century in precious tablets with cameos and jewelry / Ingrid S. Weber
An eighteenth-century collector as patron: the 4th Duke of Marlborough and the London engravers / Gertrud Seidmann
The classical hero as ideal ruler on two early nineteenth-century Russian cameos / Julia O. Kagan
The last gems: Italian neoclassical gem engravings and their impressions / Douglas Lewis

320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Engraved Gems: Survivals and Revivals

by: Brown, C.M.

• ISBN-13: 9780894682711 / 978-0-89468-271-1
• ISBN-03: 0894682717 / 0-89468-271-7
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1997

Price: 72,78 EURO

1 copy in stock