Greek gold
Subtitle: jewellery of the classical world
By: Dyfri Williams and Jack Ogden.
Contributors: Ogden, Jack.
Publisher: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: British Museum -- Exhibitions.; Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia) -- Exhibitions.; Gold jewelry, Ancient -- Greece -- Exhibitions.; Gold jewelry -- Greece -- Exhibitions.; Jewelry -- England -- London -- Exhibitions.; Jewelry -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: "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, such as drawing and sculpture. Each piece is illustrated in full color, with numerous color details showing the intricacy and subtlety of these masterpieces of ancient Greek craftsmanship."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition of Greek gold jewelry from the collections of the British Museum and the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.

Includes bibliographical references.

Gift to Victoria University Library. Pfaff, Larry. 2006/11/09.