Figures & Faces. The Art of Jewelry

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This is the third book in a series devoted to the splendid jewelry collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Following on from Flora and Fauna, the theme this time is the human figure, perhaps the most intimate and involving of subjects. Jewelry has always been a vehicle for the deepest of human emotions: remembrance, faith, devotion, love, belonging and mourning. The museum`s collection begins in the Byzantine era and ranges through the medieval and Renaissance periods and beyond, w

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