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The Consummate Mastery Of Greek Goldsmiths And The Beauty Of Their Designs Elevated Jewelry In The Classical Period To Glorious Artistic Heights. This Volume Presents Nearly 200 Of The Finest Surviving Pieces Made Between The Fifth And The Early Third Century B.c., The Era That Also Saw The Creation Of The Parthenon At Athens And The Temple Of Artemis At Ephesus, The Sculptures Of Polykleitos, Praxiteles, And Lysippus, And The Paintings Of Polygnotos, Apollodoros, Zeuxis, And Nikias.--book Jacket. Drawn From The Unrivaled Collections Of The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York, And The British Museum, London, The Works In This Book Represent Jewelry Produced Throughout The Greek World. Regional Variations And Preferences Are Seen In Jewelry From Greece Itself, As Well As From The Wealthy Greek Cities In Asia Minor, The Crimea, And South Italy And From Partially Hellenized Areas Such As Cyprus, Egypt, And The Eastern Mediterranean. The Authors Describe The Goldsmiths' Techniques In Detail, With The Aid Of Specially Taken Scanning Electron Microphotographs, And They Discuss How The Jewelry Was Worn, Its Iconography, And How It Relates To Other Arts, Suc

Author

Dyfri Williams and Jack Ogden

Publisher

London: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780714122021

Subjects

Art, History, Arts