Spectacular: Gems and Jewelry from the Merriweather Post Collection
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (914 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1907804927 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Liana Paredes holds an MA in Art History from the Complutense University in Madrid, and has worked at the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in its European Decorative Arts Department. She has been at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens since 1991, where she is now Director of Collections & Chief Curator. She joined Hillwood Estate, Museum
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Fascinating essays highlight special details of the gems and jewels, as well as their sometimes scandalous history. National Gem and Mineral Collection, and chairman of the Department of Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institution.Dr. Wilfried Zeisler is the Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens’ curator of Russian and 19th-century Art.. The Merriweather Post collection offers an enthralling glimpse into one of the most remarkable, and intact, collections of jewelry ever amassed.Spectacular immerses the reader in jewelry history and design, weaving in seminal moments in Post’s life as one of the most passionate and confident collectors of jewelry of the twentieth century. Fuller is the founder and president of Martin Fuller Appraisals, LLC.Michael Hall is the curator of ceramics of the Capelain Collection in Jersey, Channel Islands.Jennifer Levy is a curatorial assistant at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens.Jeffrey Post is the curator of the U.S. There are exquisite pieces by Van Cleef and Arpels; numerous examples by Cartier; contemporary commissions from Harry Winston, George Headley, David Webb, and Fulco di Verdura, and historical pieces such as the Marie Louise Diadem, and the legendary earrings worn by Marie Antoinette on the eve of the French Revolution.Spectacular provides a critical perspective
He has participated in and curated exhibitions in Paris and Monaco. At Hillwood, he has curated Splendor and Surprise: Elegant Containers, Antique to Modern (2015) and Konstantin Makovsky: The Tsar's Painter (2016). Michael Hall received his MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies of London University (SOAS) on Mughal decorative arts in 2007. Today Mr. He has published more than 90 scientific articles in these fields. Clawson Mills Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Prior to joining the Department of Mineral Sciences at the Smithsonian Institution in 1984, he was