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Castellani and Italian archaeological jewelry / Susan Weber Soros and Stefanie Walker, editors.
LIBRA NK7398.C39 A4 2004
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Castellani family--Exhibitions.
- Castellani family.
- Jewelry--Italy--Rome--History--19th century--Exhibitions.
- Jewelry.
- Jewelry, Ancient--Influence--Exhibitions.
- Jewelry, Ancient.
- History.
- Italy--Rome.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 428 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 32 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Conn.] : Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York by Yale University Press, [2004]
- Contents:
- Introduction / Susan Weber Soros, Stefanie Walker
- Rome during the Castellani century / John A. Davis
- Founders, family members, and the firm / Stefanie Walker
- Fortunato Pio Castellani: founder of the firm and jeweler to the Roman artistocracy / Stefano Aluffi Pentini
- Jewels with cameos and intaglios: the Castellani and Roman gem carvers / Lucia Pirzio Biroli Stefanelli
- The workshop: models, tools, and newly discovered designs / Maurizio Donati
- Micromosaics and their sources / Judy Rudoe
- Revivers of the lost art: Alessandro Castellani and the quest for classical precision / Jack Ogden
- "A perfect imitation of the ancient work"
- ancient jewelry and Castellani adaptations / Elizabeth Simpson
- "Under the great canopies of civilization": Castellani jewelry and metalwork at international exhibitions / Susan Weber Soros
- Alessandro and Augusto Castellani: collecting, museum history, and the antiquities market / Antonella Magagnini
- The Augusto Castellani collection at the Musea Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, Rome / Anna Maria Moretti Sgubini
- Archaeological jewelry in the orbit of Castellani / Diana Scarisbrick
- Inscriptions on Castellani jewels / Maria Grazia Branchetti.
- Notes:
- Catalog published in conjunction with an exhibition held in the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York, Nov. 18, 2004-Feb. 6, 2005, the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, Rome, Italy, Feb. 21-May 29, 2005, and the Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, London, England, June 13-Oct. 2, 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 398-416) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0300104618
- 9780300104615
- OCLC:
- 54806399
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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