Engraved gems : survivals and revivals / edited by Clifford Malcolm Brown.

Other author Brown, Clifford M.
Format Book
Publication InfoWashington : National Gallery of Art ; Hannover : Distributed by the University Press of New England, ©1997.
Description320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Subjects

SeriesStudies in the history of art / Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts ; 54. Symposium papers ; 32
Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) v. 54. ^A654747
Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.). Symposium papers 32. ^A263383
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.
Local noteJoyner-FOR JOYNER LIBRARY HOLDINGS OF THE SERIES, STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF ART (WASHINGTON, D.C.), SEARCH BY CALL NUMBER N386.U5 S78.
General noteProceedings of a symposium held Nov. 18-19, 1994.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 97225325
ISBN0894682717