A History of Jewellery 1100-1870

by Joan Evans

Superb sourcebook of extremely rare ornamentation provides fascinating history of jewelry styles over 700-year period. Detailed narrative enhances 400 photographs and illustrations of striking gilt bronze clasp (c. 1200); 13th-century reliquary pendant; diamond and topaz necklace (c.1760), much more.

Genres: Jewellery, Art, History

224 pages, Hardcover

First published April 15, 2011

About the author

Dame Joan Evans, DBE was a British historian of French and English mediaeval art.

She was the daughter of antiquarian and businessman John Evans and his third wife Maria Millington Lathbury (1856–1944). In 1950 her book Cluniac Art of the Romanesque Period, which concerned art and sculptures made by the monks of the abbey at Cluny in eastern France, was published by Cambridge University Press.

Reviews

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had picked this book up in thinking that I could use it to designing some Renaissance jewelry. It is a very indepth identification book. Each page has several reference footnotes. I don't really care for the size of the book though, to big to hold in one hand and more reading on a line then a quick glance(roughly it's at 14-15 word sentences). Lot's of black and white pictures don't really do justice to the piece they are showing with much shadowing. But the shear volume of detail makes it worth it.