The Lewes House Collection of Ancient Gems

by John Beazley, John Boardman

'Beazley treated the gems, rings and cameos listed in this volume as monuments deserving as much attention in description of detail, even to the forms of letters in inscriptions, as any other work of art'. First published in 1920, and now re-published here, this volume reproduces Beazley's dscriptions and commentary on the Lewes House Collection of intaglios and cameos sold to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston from the collection of Edward Perry Warren. The collection includes objects of Cretan, Mycenaean, Phoenician, Greek, Hellenistic, Etruscan, Roman and Renaissance origins all of which are illustrated with enlarged black and white photographs. Also includes updated references and many of Beazley's original margin notes.

126 pages, Paperback

First published August 5, 2015

About the author

Sir John Davidson Beazley, CH, FBA, was a British classical archaeologist and art historian, known for his classification of Attic vases by artistic style. He was Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the University of Oxford from 1925 to 1956.