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Looking at Jewelry A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques
ISBN: PB: 9781606065990, Getty Publications, June 2019
304 pp., 23.2x15.8 cm, colour illus.
The fascination with personal adornment is universal. It is a preoccupation that is primal, instinctive, and uniquely human. 'Jewelry' encompasses a seemingly endless number of ornaments produced across time and in all cultures. The range of material...
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£14,99
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Color Science and the Visual Arts A Guide for Conservations, Curators, and the Curious
ISBN: PB: 9781606064818, Getty Publications, July 2016
208 pp., 25x15 cm, 250 colour illus.
"A curator, a paintings conservator, a photographer, and a conservation scientist walk into a bar". What happens next? In lively and accessible prose, color science expert Roy S. Berns helps the reader understand complex color-technology concepts and...
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£45,00
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Household Gods Private Devotion in Ancient Greece and Rome
ISBN: HB: 9781606064566, Getty Publications, February 2016
160 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Daily religious devotion in the Greek and Roman worlds centered on the family and the home. Besides official worship in rural sacred areas and at temples in towns, the ancients kept household shrines with statuettes of different deities that could ha...
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£18,99
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Conundrum Puzzles in the Grotesques Tapestry Series
ISBN: HB: 9781606064535, Getty Publications, December 2015
64 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
The whimsical imagery of four tapestries in the permanent collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum and currently on display at the Getty Center is perplexing. Created in France at the Beauvais manufactory between 1690 and 1730, these charming hangings,...
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Woven Gold Tapestries of Louis XIV
ISBN: HB: 9781606064610, Getty Publications, December 2015
136 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Meticulously woven by hand with wool, silk, and gilt-metal thread, the tapestry collection of the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, represents the highest achievements of the art form. Intended to enhance the king'sreputation by visualizing his manifest...
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£40,00
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Looking at Textiles A Guide to Technical Terms
ISBN: PB: 9781606060803, Getty Publications, December 2011
112 pp., 23.2x15.8 cm, 78 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.
This is a concise yet detailed guide to the fundamental terms, materials, and techniques used to create textiles. Textiles have been made and used by every culture throughout history. However diverse – whether an Egyptian mummy wrapping, a Turkish ca...
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£14,99
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French Tapestries and Textiles in the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: HB: 9780892363797, Getty Publications, March 2006
208 pp., 30.6x23.6 cm, 55 colour illus.,146 black&white illus.
This lavishly-illustrated book is a survey of the Getty Museum's seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French textiles – one of the world's finest collections. Featuring twenty-five extraordinary tapestries woven at the Gobelins and Beauvais manufactur...
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£69,00
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