Brilliant effects
Subtitle: gems and jewellery as agency in history, literature, and the visual arts
By: Marcia Pointon.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780300142785
Subjects: Jewelry -- Social aspects; Jewelry -- Psychological aspects; Art and society
Other titles: Gems and jewellery as agency in history, literature, and the visual arts
Description: Pointon examines how small-scale and valuable artefacts have figured in systems of belief and in political and social practice in Europe since the Renaissance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 1. Fault lines and points of light; title: 2. 'A fine brilliant glittering on the little finger'; title: 3. Jewel boxes in pictorial narratives; title: 4. 'Something rich and strange'; title: 5. Marie Antoinette and the diamond necklace affair; title: 6. Charlotte of England, Warren Hastings, and the dangers of diamonds; title: 7. Chinese whispers : James Cox's Jewellery Museum-London in the 1770s; title: 8. Toys and automata : Jaquet-Droz and Leschot-Neuchâtel, Paris, London in the 1780s; title: 9. The Treasury of the Santa Casa at Loreto and its English visitors; title: 10. Secular memorials : mourning and memory in hair jewellery; title: 11. Lapidary loves; title: 12. Crystalline terminations; title: Bibliography.