Gliptika: proshloe i nastoiashchee. Katalog vystavki / Glyptics: Past and Present. Exhibition Catalogue
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2019. Sewn pb. This catalogue of a Hermitage exhibition shows the museum's willingness to imagine new ways of combining works for exhibition: artists working in analogous genres but in different periods and places are exhibited together. Works from the Hermitage's great collections of carved gemstones illustrate the development of the art in ancient Greece and Rome, its revival in Renaissance Europe, and again in the nineteenth century. Also published are related works from precious and semiprecious stones, and rock crystal such as snuffboxes, vases, and seals. European sources include France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Russia. The contemporary parallel shows objects by Russian jewelers and stone carvers working today to take advantage of the country's amazing sources of high-quality gemstones and to supply the relatively new luxury market in Russia. 163 p., approx. 150 color illus., Rus. with summary in ENGLISH. Item #3330
ISBN: 9785935728465
Price: $68.00