For anyone interested in jewelry and its history, this book will inform, delight and serve as reference.
This is the first book devoted to the rings considered thematically rather than chronically. The author, a world expect, has rich historical and literary knowledge. As she consider rings in all their roles, she makes the reader revel in them as work of art, and makes their context come alive through paintings, drawing and vivid quotations, explaining what most personal of jewels meant to those who wore them.
- Includes rings from all periods of history, from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and Renaissance up to today.
- The author is a world expect on jewellery, with a specific interest in rings.
- Splendidly illustrated throughout, with a special commissioned photographs; many of the rings have not been reproduced before.
- The rings are drawn not from the great museums but, especially, from private collections. Chief among those is the family collection of the noted dealer and art patron Benjamin Zucker.
Author: Diana Scarisbrick, English, Multimedia.
Specifications: Hardcover, 225 x 218 mm, 384 pp, 483 illustrations
, ISBN: 978 0500513644 .
Price (ZA) R540.00
Keywords: Design, Jewelry
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