Metropolitan Jewelry
Title | Metropolitan Jewelry PDF eBook |
Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 118 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Jewelry |
ISBN | 0870996169 |
This book highlights pieces of jewellery from ancient and modern cultures in every part of the globe. Of special interest are the objects that appear in paintings and other works of art: jewel-studded gowns, glittering Renaissance brooches and an Egyptian beaded collar are among the featured works from the "Metropolitan Museum"'s collection. Necklaces, earrings, rings and bracelets fill this book and also included are objects of religious significance, military honours and other kinds of personal decoration. The captions relate anecdotes concerning the artists and wearers and describe the history and style of the jewellery pictured.
Ancient Egyptian Jewelry
Title | Ancient Egyptian Jewelry PDF eBook |
Author | Ambrose Lansing |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2015-02-04 |
Genre | History |
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This picture book features images of Ancient Egyptian Jewelry covering works from Pre-dynastic shell necklaces to intricately designed gold earrings of the Roman period. A brief introductory essay discusses the history of jewelry and the evolution of Ancient Egyptian jewelry craftsmanship.
Jewelry
Title | Jewelry PDF eBook |
Author | Melanie Holcomb |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2018-11-02 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 1588396509 |
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana} As an art form, jewelry is defined primarily through its connection to and interaction with the body—extending it, amplifying it, accentuating it, distorting it, concealing it, or transforming it. Addressing six different modes of the body—Adorned, Divine, Regal, Transcendent, Alluring, and Resplendent—this artfully designed catalogue illustrates how these various definitions of the body give meaning to the jewelry that adorns and enhances it. Essays on topics spanning a wide range of times and cultures establish how jewelry was used as a symbol of power, status, and identity, from earflares of warrior heroes in Pre-Colombian Peru to bowknot earrings designed by Yves Saint-Laurent. These most intimate works of art provide insight into the wearers, but also into the cultures that produced them. More than 200 jewels and ornaments, alongside paintings and sculptures of bejeweled bodies, demonstrate the social, political, and aesthetic role of jewelry from ancient times to the present. Gorgeous new illustrations of Bronze Age spirals, Egyptian broad collars, Hellenistic gold armbands, Japanese courtesan hair adornments, jewels from Mughal India, and many, many more explore the various facets of jewelry and its relationship to the human body over 5,000 years of world history.
Jewels by JAR
Title | Jewels by JAR PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Sassoon |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 147 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 1588395316 |
Called "the Fabergé of our time" by Diane von Furstenberg, Joel A. Rosenthal, who works in Paris under the name JAR, is one of the most acclaimed jewellery designers of the past thirty years. JAR is known for his use of precious and semi-precious stones resplendent with myriad shades of vibrant colour and set in organic shapes: one brooch, for instance, features lifelike petals in subtly differentiated hues, made from a thousand pavé sapphires and amethysts. The New York Times has described his jewellery as "belligerent, stubborn, audacious, funny, contradictory", while JAR himself has characterised his work as "somewhere between geometry and a bouquet of flowers". This book, featuring nearly 70 pieces from throughout JAR's career, provides a concise, accessible, elegantly designed retrospective of the best of his jewellery creations, and is the only book of its kind on his work available in English.
Islamic Jewelry in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title | Islamic Jewelry in the Metropolitan Museum of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Islamic jewelry |
ISBN | 0870993267 |
Metropolitan Jewelry
Title | Metropolitan Jewelry PDF eBook |
Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 111 |
Release | 1991-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780870996177 |
Chinese Jewelry - A Picture Book - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title | Chinese Jewelry - A Picture Book - The Metropolitan Museum of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Anon |
Publisher | Charles Press Pubs(PA) |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2011-04-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1447401964 |
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.