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Bright lights in the Dark Ages : the Thaw collection of early medieval ornaments
- Title
- Bright lights in the Dark Ages : the Thaw collection of early medieval ornaments / Noël Adams.
- Author
- Adams, Noël
- Publication
- New York : The Morgan Library & Museum, in association with D Giles Limited, London, 2014.
- ©2014
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- Description
- xix, 381 pages : color illustrations, color maps; 32 cm
- Summary
- "Bright Lights of the Dark Ages is a major new volume on early Medieval art. It features over two hundred stunning and extremely rare early medieval gold and precious stonework objects, including brooches, buckles, shields, clasps, spoons and other 'grave goods,' that were interred as status symbols with their owners in burials mounds across Europe. The new societies of the early Medieval period which developed on the periphery of the great Roman Empire--Germanic barbarians in Western Europe, Sarmatian and later Alanic tribes around the Black Sea, and the eastern frontier cities bordering the Parthian Empire in Iran--were all shaped by interaction with the Roman Empire, and profoundly influenced by its material culture. Author Noël Adams surveys the magnificent pieces that were made to advertise power and wealth in these new 'barbarian' kingdoms which arose after the fall of the Roman Empire, and in doing so shows the dramatic and surprising relationship between these 'migration era' objects and later medieval art. In a volume full of wonderful images, highlights include Gothic and Visigothic imperial style brooches from modern-day Slovakia and Crimea, superb Gallo-Roman spoons and enamelled domed brooches and buckles from Northern Europe and Britain"--
- Alternative Title
- Thaw collection of early medieval ornaments
- Early medieval ornaments
- Medieval ornaments
- Subjects
- Thaw, Eugene Victor
- Thaw, Eugene Victor > Art collections
- Grave goods > Europe
- ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Permanent Collections
- ART / History / Medieval
- Material culture > Europe > History > To 1500
- Europe > History > 392-814
- HISTORY / Medieval
- Decoration and ornament, Medieval
- Jewelry, Medieval
- ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Jewelry
- Europe > Antiquities
- Thaw, Clare > Art collections
- Note
- Thaw Collection photography by John Bigelow Taylor.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-381).
- Contents
- Director's Foreword / William M. Griswold -- Preface / Eugene V. Thaw -- Author's Acknowledgments -- Notes to the Reader -- Introduction -- Classical Traditions, Barbarian Styles -- New Enemies, New Allies : The Hunnic Period and Its Aftermath in the East -- Gothic Identity -- Merovingian Fashions -- Anglo-Saxon England and Scandinavia -- Barbarians and Byzantium -- Glossary -- Appendix: Provenance of Works in the Thaw Collection.
- Call Number
- JQG 15-573
- ISBN
- 9781907804250 (hardback : alkaline paper)
- 1907804250 (hardback : alkaline paper)
- LCCN
- 2014010399
- 40024134596
- OCLC
- 881386598
- Author
- Adams, Noël, author.
- Title
- Bright lights in the Dark Ages : the Thaw collection of early medieval ornaments / Noël Adams.
- Publisher
- New York : The Morgan Library & Museum, in association with D Giles Limited, London, 2014.
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-381).
- Added Author
- Taylor, John Bigelow, photographer.Pierpont Morgan Library, sponsoring body, issuing body.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40024134596
- Research Call Number
- JQG 15-573