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Title(s)
Brilliant effects : a cultural history of gem stones and jewellery / Marcia Pointon.
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Additional Title(s)
Gems and jewellery as agency in history, literature, and the visual arts
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Published/Created
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009.
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Physical Description
ix, 426 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
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Holdings
Reference Library
GT2250 .P65 2009 (LC) Oversize
Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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Copyright Status
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Full Alma Record
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Classification
Books
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Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index. -
Subject Terms
Art and society. | Jewelry -- Psychological aspects. | Jewelry -- Social aspects.
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Export
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IIIF Manifest
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.
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