Jewelry: Ancient To Modern

By Walter's Art Gallery

Documents the collections of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, showing 700 pieces in close-up color detail covering a period of 6,000 years; one of the most comprehensive books on the art of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067040697X
• ISBN13: 9780670406975
• Release Date: February 1980
• Publisher: Studio
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 20.0" x 20.0" x 20.0"

Customer Reviews

Jewelry Ancient to Modern

This is a nice, visualy attractive book listing 700+ items of jewelry, with photos and description. The material is organized by culture and age. As with most books on the subject, the emphasis is on the finest examples. Unlike most others, however, this book depicts a fair number of common pieces that are more representative of the true flavor of the era. It is nice to see a few examples that are representative of what the average collector or researcher is exposed to. Overall, I would say it is a very good book and very well illustrated. Topics are Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Renaisance, and Medieval. Content is 95% 1700's or earlier, with emphasis on ancient material.