25,000 years of jewelry : from the collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / edited for the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin by Maren Eichhorn-Johannsen and Adelheid Rasche ; in collaboration with Astrid Bähr and Svenia Schneider ; with photographs by Stefan Büchner ; translation from the German, Bram Opstelten.
Language: English Original language: German Publisher: Munich ; New York : Prestel, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: New editionDescription: 383 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 3791354434 (pbk.)
- 9783791354439 (pbk.)
- Twenty-five thousand years of jewelry
- Jewelry
- 25,000 Jahre Schmuck. English.
- NK7306 .A1813 2015
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Published for the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-383).
Jewelry in ancient Egypt / Klaus Finneiser -- Jewelry sets from the late Bronze Age / Alix Hänsel -- Etruscan gold work / Gertrud Platz-Horster -- Woven jewelry : textile imitation of jewelry from late antiquity and the early Byzantine period / Cäcilia Fluck -- Notes on the value of "jewelry" in pre-Columbian America / Manuela Fischer -- Jewelry in the medieval Islamic world / Gisela Helmecke -- The royal Gnadenpfennig (1610) / Elke Bannicke -- Precious stones and valuable jewelry at Indian royal courts / Raffael Gadebusch -- Remarks on modern-era garment jewelry / Adelheid Rasche -- Egidius Verhelst's portrait of electress Elisabeth Auguste of Palatine-Sulzbach and Bavaria / Julia Sedda -- "What the war spared" : the jewelry collection of Aloys and Maria Lautenschläger at the Kunstgewerbemuseum / Christine Waidenschlager -- Historical jewelry of the Erzya and Moksha (Mordvins) in Russia / Elisabeth Tietmeyer -- Memorial, friendship, and mourning jewelry / Svenia Schneider -- Berlin iron jewelry : "gold I gave in return for iron" / Svenia Schneider -- Hair accessories in the collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Maren Eichhorn-Johannsen -- Jewels from South- and Southeast Asia : the people of the Golden Triangle and the Naga of India / Roland Platz -- Sounds and scents : jewelry from the Middle Sepik region in Papua New Guinea / Markus Schindlbeck -- Adorned and protected : amulets and talismans as exemplified by children's garments among the Turkmen / Ingrid Pfluger-Schindlbeck -- A surrealist jewel : Salvador Dali's Portrait of Mrs. Isabel Styler-Tas (Melancolia) / Dieter Scholz -- A special look : the evolution of the jewelry collection of the Museum Europäischer Kulturen / Christine Binroth, Dagmar Neuland-Kitzerow.