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Medusa's gaze : the extraordinary journey of the Tazza Farnese / Marina Belozerskaya.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Belozerskaya, Marina, 1966-
- Series:
- Emblems of antiquity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tazza Farnese.
- Cameos, Classical.
- Tazzas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 292 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cleopatra's artifice
- Gem mania in Rome
- The past acquired, revived, and ransacked
- "A large dish of onyx" in the Holy Roman Empire
- Timur, world conqueror and connoisseur
- Renaissance collectors and thieves
- In women's hands
- Gems and ruins in Bourbon Naples
- The night watchman.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-273) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0199979359
- 9780199979356
- Publisher Number:
- 99954201695
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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