Brilliant effects : a cultural history of gem stones and jewellery / Marcia Pointon.
Alternate Title(s):
Gems and jewellery as agency in history, literature, and the visual arts
Published / Created:
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009.
Physical Description:
ix, 426 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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 -- Bibliography.
Subject Terms:
Jewelry -- Social aspects. | Jewelry -- Psychological aspects. | Art and society.