Portrait Jewels

Author : Diana Scarisbrick
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500515573
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Portrait Jewels written by Diana Scarisbrick and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly illustrated and fascinating book of jewels and gems that will appeal to anyone interested in the history of jewelry, portraiture, and European culture. From the Renaissance to the end of the Belle Epoque, cameo, intaglio, and miniature portraits, prized as representations of eminent people or treasured as images of the beloved, have been enriched by jeweled frames in order to wear them or display them as precious objects. Rulers from the Medici to the Romanovs commissioned portrait jewels. Dynasties represented here include the Valois and Bourbon in France; Bavarian, Habsburg, and Hanoverian in Germany, Central Europe, and Spain; Tudor, Stuart, and Hanoverian in Britain; and the House of Orange-Nassau in the Netherlands. Men and women famous in politics, religion, history, literature, and the arts, including Queen Elizabeth I, Louis XIV, Catherine the Great, Voltaire and Madame du Châtelet, Popes Clement XII and Pius VII, and Lord Byron are featured in this exquisite miniature gallery. The author draws upon her knowledge of jewelry, painting, history, and literature to set the portrait jewels in the context of people’s lives, and shows how they were worn and what they meant to donors and recipients—tokens of allegiance to a ruler, of commitment between lovers, of affection within families.

Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.XU/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Portraits and Jewels of Mary Stuart written by Andrew Lang and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ambrose Lansing
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Ancient Egyptian Jewelry written by Ambrose Lansing and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Harold Clifford Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Jewellery written by Harold Clifford Smith and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robin Jaffee Frank
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300087246
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Love and Loss written by Robin Jaffee Frank and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most often, portrait miniatures were painted in watercolor on thin disks of ivory. They were sometimes worn as jewelry, sometimes framed to be viewed privately. Many were painted by specialists, although renowned easel artists - including Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, and Charles Willson Peale - also created them to commemorate births, engagements, marriages, deaths, and other joinings or separations. The book traces the development of this exquisite art form, revealing the close ties between the history of the miniature and the history of American private life."--BOOK JACKET.

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Sunset written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Edward Dell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs written by Robert Edward Dell and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M.J. Rose
Publisher : Blue Box Press
ISBN 13 : 1952457084
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Last Tiara written by M.J. Rose and published by Blue Box Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller M.J. Rose comes a provocative and moving story of a young female architect in post-World War II Manhattan, who stumbles upon a hidden treasure and begins a journey to discovering her mother’s life during the fall of the Romanovs. Sophia Moon had always been reticent about her life in Russia and when she dies, suspiciously, on a wintry New York evening, Isobelle despairs that her mother’s secrets have died with her. But while renovating the apartment they shared, Isobelle discovers something among her mother’s effects—a stunning silver tiara, stripped of its jewels. Isobelle’s research into the tiara’s provenance draws her closer to her mother’s past—including the story of what became of her father back in Russia, a man she has never known. The facts elude her until she meets a young jeweler, who wants to help her but is conflicted by his loyalty to the Midas Society, a covert international organization whose mission is to return lost and stolen antiques, jewels, and artwork to their original owners. Told in alternating points of view, the stories of the two young women unfurl as each struggles to find their way during two separate wars. In 1915, young Sofiya Petrovitch, favorite of the royal household and best friend of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, tends to wounded soldiers in a makeshift hospital within the grounds of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg and finds the love of her life. In 1948 New York, Isobelle Moon works to break through the rampant sexism of the age as one of very few women working in a male-dominated profession and discovers far more about love and family than she ever hoped for. In M.J. Rose’s deftly constructed narrative, the secrets of Sofiya’s early life are revealed incrementally, even as Isobelle herself works to solve the mystery of the historic Romanov tiara (which is based on an actual Romanov artifact that is, to this day, still missing)—and how it is that her mother came to possess it. The two strands play off each other in finely-tuned counterpoint, building to a series of surprising and deeply satisfying revelations.

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: