Title: Classicism to neo-classicism : essays dedicated to Gertrud Seidmann /
Authors: Seidmann, Gertrud.; Henig, Martin.; Plantzos, Dimitris
Publisher: Archaeopress : Hadrian Books Ltd. [distributor],
Year: 1999
Subjects: Gems, Classical.; Gems.; Neoclassicism (Art); Classicism in art.
Contents: Gertrud Seidmann, a scholar and a friend / Martin Henig and Dimitris Plantzos -- The Parthenon and Athenian Vase-painting / Brian Sparkes -- Leda on Ancient Gems / Marianne Maaskant Kleibrink -- The Changing Image of Alexander the Great / Michael Vickers -- The Price of Sacrilege: Diomedes, the Palladion and Roman Taste / Dimitris Plantzos -- One Hundred and Fifty Years of Wroxeter Gems / Martin Henig and Robert Wilkins -- Tellus and the Seasons: Gem Copies of a Roman Medallion Type / Erika Zwierlein-Diehl -- A Chalcedony Barbarian / Donald M. Bailey -- The Wiveliscombe Roman Cameo / Catherine Johns -- Imperial Portrait Gems, Medallions and Mounted Coins: Changes in Imperial donativa in the 3rd century AD / Adrian Marsden -- Silver Ring, 11: an Inventory from Roman London / R. S. O. Tomlin -- From Komos to Afikoman, Symposion to Seder: two Anglo-Jewish Passover Plates in Oxford / Tyler Jo Smith -- Eastern Gems and Classical Prototypes / Sheila E. Hoey Middleton -- Antiquity Misunderstood / John Cherry -- The Afterlife of Childeric's Ring / Arthur MacGregor -- The Rosary -- Veneration and Production: The Dreyfus-Best Collection / Anna Beatriz Chadour-Sampson -- Philipp von Stosch, Bernard Picart and the Gemmae Antiquae Caelatae / J. J. L. Whiteley -- An Intaglio by Giovanni Beltrami and some considerations on the connection between plaquettes and gems in the late 18th -- early 19th century / Gabriella Tassinari -- Conyers Middleton's Gems / Jeffrey Spier -- The Lewes House Gems: Warren and Beazley / John Boardman -- Gertrud Seidmann: A Bibliography.