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Rock Crystal Treasures from Antiquity to Today

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Autore/i	Sylvie Raulet
Editore	Assouline	Luogo	Paris
Anno	1999	Pagine	240
Dimensioni	25x29 (cm)	Illustrazioni	moltissime ill. a colori n.t.
Legatura	cart. edit. sovracc. ill.	Conservazione	Usato ottime condizioni - used very good
Lingua	Inglese - English text	Peso	2300 (gr)
ISBN	2843231701	EAN-13	9782843231704
Prezzo	120.00 €	Sconto	25%
Prezzo scontato	90.00 €

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Con la collaborazione di Alain Boucheron.

Never before has there been a book dedicated to objets d'art made of rock crystal, a mineral that nonetheless has always fascinated humanity. Rock crystal, which was already being worked in the third millennium before Christ, came into its own as an artistic medium in Egypt, for a brief but prodigious period 1969-1171 during the Fatimid dynasty. It was here that carvers and engravers, inspired by earlier art in Egypt and Sassanid Persia, developed unparalleled technical skill. Then from the 14th through the 17th centuries, the crowned heads of Europe found themselves utterly captivated by rock crystal. Passion for rock crystal among the nobility and aristocracy gave rise to such famous workshops - both independent and court-sponsored - as those of the Saracchi and the Miseroni in Milan. Thereafter the material tell somewhat out of favor, thanks to its demystification by science and thus to the rise of imitations. That is until the late 19th century, when talented jewelers and artists celebrated its natural beauty as equal to that of precious stones." (T-CA)