Research Catalog

Title

High on luxury : lost treasures from the Roman Empire / Anne Marie Nielsen and Anna Wirenfeldt Minor.

Author

Nielsen, Anne Marie, 1949-

Publication

[Copenhagen] : Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek ; Paris : Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2018.

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Additional Authors

• Bibliothèque nationale de France.
• Ny Carlsberg glyptotek.
• Wirenfeldt Minor, Anna.

Description

119 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimile, map, plan; 22 cm.

Summary

In 1830, near the village of Berthouville in France, a farmer discovered 25 kg of Roman silver service dating from the 1st ? 3rd centuries AD. It had remained untouched for 1500 years. What was nearly miraculous was that the treasure had not then been scattered to the four winds, sold or melted down, but ended up in the Bibliotéque nationale de France.00Today the treasure permits rare insight into life around a Roman temple. Together with other contemporary objects of great value from the Roman Empire it tells us about a life of decadence, but also reflects the cultural sophistication and intellect of Romans when conversation dealt with the motifs of the silverware ? the Greek myths.00Exhibition: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark (14.03.-02.09.2018).

Alternative Title

Lost treasures from the Roman Empire

Subjects

• Silverwork
• Silverwork, Classical
• Excavations (Archaeology)
• Silverwork > France > Paris > Exhibitions
• Rome (Empire)
• France > Paris
• France > Normandy
• Silverwork > Rome > Exhibitions
• Silverwork, Classical > France > Normandy > Exhibitions
• Excavations (Archaeology) > France > Normandy > Exhibitions

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, March 14-September 2, 2018.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN

• 9788774523574
• 8774523570

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries