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Rhs Botanical Illustration
  • Language: en

Rhs Botanical Illustration

  • Categories: Art

This book presents a cross-section of recent Royal Horticultural Society gold medalists from around the world. The RHS awards its gold medal only to the most outstanding exhibitions, encouraging the international artistic community to perform to the highest standard. The illustrations gathered in these pages demonstrate great attention to detail, masterful color work, and outstanding technical skill.

Ancient Gold Jewelry at the Dallas Museum of Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

Ancient Gold Jewelry at the Dallas Museum of Art

This lovely volume illustrates in color superb examples of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman jewelry. Major types of Greek and Etruscan jewelry from the seventh to the first centuries B.C. are well represented, along with a few Roman imperial works. In exquisite miniature, these ornaments reflect the stylistic history of more monumental art: they are sculptures on a small scale. Underneath the shining splendor these gold objects -- works originally meant to be worn by men and women as a sign of wealth and power in life -- lies a more fundamental meaning. Gold, a mysterious power, was a means for people to communicate with the gods who rule human life. The skill of the ancient goldsmith has never been equaled. Although the techniques used are for the most part understood, the virtuosity and intricacy of manufacture have vet to be duplicated.

Art of the Gold Rush
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 166

Art of the Gold Rush

  • Categories: Art

"Art of the Gold Rush" features drawings and oil paintings of images of the scenery, people, and activity surrounding the 80,000 travelers to California in search of golden nuggets.

Ink, Silk & Gold
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

Ink, Silk & Gold

  • Categories: Art

Ink, Silk, and Gold explores the dynamic and complex traditions of Islamic art through more than 115 major works in a dazzling array of media, reproduced in full color and exquisite detail manuscripts inscribed with gold, paintings on silk, elaborate metalwork, intricately woven textiles, luster-painted ceramics, and more. These objects, which originated within an Islamic world that ranges from Western Europe to Indonesia and across more than thirteen centuries, share a distinctive relationship to the materials they are made of: their color, shape, texture, and technique of production all convey meaning. Enhanced by texts from an international team of scholars and drawing on the latest technical information, Ink, Silk, and Gold is an inviting introduction to the riches of the Islamic art collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and a window into a vibrant global culture.

Gold
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 59

Gold

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Comprising the materials needed to make gold items ranging from an eighteenth century French fan to a Peruvian nose ring along with details of the history of gold-working techniques from ancient Egypt to modern times. Includes photographs, illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions for the ten projects.

Contemporary Botanical Artists
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Contemporary Botanical Artists

  • Categories: Art

Presents a collection of botanical paintings along with descriptions of the artists' techniques and backgrounds.

The Art of Precolumbian Gold
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

The Art of Precolumbian Gold

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Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time

  • Categories: Art

Issued in conjunction with the exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time, held January 26, 2019-July 21, 2019, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Metropolitan Jewelry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 118

Metropolitan Jewelry

This book highlights pieces of jewellery from ancient and modern cultures in every part of the globe. Of special interest are the objects that appear in paintings and other works of art: jewel-studded gowns, glittering Renaissance brooches and an Egyptian beaded collar are among the featured works from the "Metropolitan Museum"'s collection. Necklaces, earrings, rings and bracelets fill this book and also included are objects of religious significance, military honours and other kinds of personal decoration. The captions relate anecdotes concerning the artists and wearers and describe the history and style of the jewellery pictured.

Drawing in Silver and Gold
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 165

Drawing in Silver and Gold

  • Categories: Art

This exhibition is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see around 100 exceptional drawings created using the exquisite metalpoint technique. It features works by some of the greatest artists working from the late 14th century to the present including Rogier van der Weyden, Petrus Christus, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein the Elder, Lucas van Leyden, Rembrandt, Edward Burne-Jones, William Holman Hunt, Otto Dix, Jasper Johns and Bruce Nauman. Works drawn from the British Museum's superb collection of metalpoint drawings sit alongside major loans from European and American museums as well as private collections, including four sheets by Leonardo da Vinci from the Royal Collection.--British Museum website.