Vtoraia Zhizn’: Monety i medali v evropeiskom prikladnom iskusstve (The State Hermitage Museum. A Second Life: Coins and Medals in European Applied Art)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2012. Sewn pb. This Hermitage exhibition catalogue publishes works of applied art featuring coins and medals that have been given new life thanks to the imagination of both craftsmen and those who commissioned the works. Substantive articles introduce the catalogue by examining the use of coins in works of decorative and applied art. Necklaces and cuff-links, ladles and caskets, medallions and snuff-boxes, cups and chalices, shot glasses, tankards and other works of applied art. Works from Antiquity provide a background, and many of the devices employed by craftsmen in Greece, Rome and Byzantium were later used by those in Western Europe and Russia. Every item is supplied with an extensive description. There is a list of exhibitions and literature. 140 pp., 7 x 10 ins., 75 color illus., sewn pb., Rus. with summary and list of illustrations in ENGLISH. Item #636
ISBN: 9785935724504
Price: $53.00