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Inca gold : 3000 years of advanced civilisation masterpieces from Peru's Larco Museum = In[k]a or : 3000 ans de civilisations developpées joyaux du Musée Larco Pérou / edited by Meinrad Maria Grewenig ; with contributions by Andrés Alvarez-Calderón Larco ... [and others].
Penn Museum Library F3429.3.G5 I55 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera--Exhibitions.
- Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera.
- Inca goldwork--Exhibitions.
- Inca goldwork.
- Inca art--Exhibitions.
- Inca art.
- Inca pottery--Exhibitions.
- Inca pottery.
- Inca textile fabrics--Exhibitions.
- Inca textile fabrics.
- Inca sculpture--Exhibitions.
- Inca sculpture.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 225 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- IncaGold
- Inka or
- InkaOr
- Place of Publication:
- Heidelberg : Kehrer ; [Saarland, Germany] : Edition Völklinger Hütte, 2004.
- Language Note:
- Text in English and French.
- Summary:
- For the Incas, gold had an ideal meaning and took on value only after being transformed into a symbolic shape. The jewelry was used as a mediator between the world of humans and the world of the gods.
- This richly illustrated book, which appeared on the occasion of the special exhibition of the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Monument Volklinger Hutte, presents about 120 masterpieces from the Larco Museum in Peru: gold objects, crowns, headdresses, ear pegs, and other cult objects.
- Along with the gold objects, the illustrated book shows numerous ceramic pieces, almost unknown in the United States and Europe, from the pre-Inca cultures, including the erotic ceramics of the Moche.
- Notes:
- Published in conjunction with the exhibition based on the collection of the Larco Museum, Peru, and held at the Völklinger Hütte, Germany.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 225).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 3936636494
- OCLC:
- 62270519
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