Portrait jewels
Subtitle: opulence and intimacy from the Medici to the Romanovs
By: Diana Scarisbrick
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780500515570
Subjects: History; Jewelry; Portrait frames; European Portrait miniatures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-349) and index.
Table of contents: title: Renaissance Europe, 1500-1625; title: The Baroque interpretation, 1625-1715; title: Eighteenth-century absolutism, elegance and sentiment, 1715-1800; title: Dynastic pride and private affection from Napoleon to World War I, 1800-1916; title: The portrait diamond, 1613-1906; title: The engraved diamond portrait.