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Brilliant effects : a cultural history of gem stones and jewellery / Marcia Pointon.
- Title
- Brilliant effects : a cultural history of gem stones and jewellery / Marcia Pointon.
- Author
- Pointon, Marcia R.
- Publication
- New Haven [Conn.] : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, c2009.
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- Description
- ix, 426 p. : ill. (some col.); 30 cm.
- Summary
- Pointon examines how small-scale and valuable artefacts have figured in systems of belief and in political and social practice in Europe since the Renaissance.
- Alternative Title
- Cultural history of gem stones and jewellery
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Geschiedenis (vorm)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Fault lines and points of light -- 2. 'A fine brilliant glittering on the little finger' -- 3. Jewel boxes in pictorial narratives -- 4. Something rich and strange -- 5. Marie-Antoinette and the diamond necklace affair -- 6. Charlotte of England, Warren Hastings, and the dangers of diamonds -- 7. Chinese whispers : James Cox's Jewellery Museum-London in the 1770s -- 8. Toys and automata : Jaquet-Droz and Leschot-Neuchâtel, Paris, London in the 1780s -- 9. The Treasury of the Santa Casa at Loreto and its English visitors -- 10. Secular memorials : mourning and memory in hair jewellery -- 11. Lapidary loves -- 12. Crystalline terminations -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
- ISBN
- 9780300142785 (cl : alk. paper)
- 0300142781 (cl : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009035841
- OCLC
- 436311074
- SCSB-12156573
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library