Pointon, Marcia R, Brilliant effects , 2009
- Title(s):
Brilliant effects : a cultural history of gem stones and jewellery / Marcia Pointon.
- Additional Title(s):
Gems and jewellery as agency in history, literature, and the visual arts
- Published/Created:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 426 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryGT2250 .P65 2009 (LC) OversizeAccessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9136103
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject Terms:
- Art and society.Jewelry -- Psychological aspects.Jewelry -- Social aspects.
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- Introduction
- 1. Fault lines and points of light
- 2. 'A fine brilliant glittering on the little finger'
- 3. Jewel boxes in pictorial narratives
- 4. 'Something rich and strange'
- 5. Marie Antoinette and the diamond necklace affair
- 6. Charlotte of England, Warren Hastings, and the dangers of diamonds
- 7. Chinese whispers : James Cox's Jewellery Museum-London in the 1770s
- 8. Toys and automata : Jaquet-Droz and Leschot-Neuchâtel, Paris, London in the 1780s
- 9. The Treasury of the Santa Casa at Loreto and its English visitors
- 10. Secular memorials : mourning and memory in hair jewellery
- 11. Lapidary loves
- 12. Crystalline terminations
- Bibliography.