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Magic Rock Crystal /anglais - Couverture rigide

Berr, Manuela

 
9783777440545: Magic Rock Crystal /anglais
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 377744054X ISBN 13 : 9783777440545
Editeur : Hirmer Verlag, 2023

Synopsis

Cooler and harder than glass, but softer than a diamond: rock crystal has always been regarded as an unusual material. Countless legends have grown up around its origins and its remarkable strengths. At the latest since Antiquity, rock crystal has played an important part as a remedy, for fortune-telling, in the Church and at courtly banquets. Breath-taking artworks have been assembled in this publication.

For a long time, people assumed that rock crystal was water that had been solidified to form eternal ice. They used it to create objects with the aura of the divine. From Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages, the spectrum of works extended from vessels for sacred and profane objects to crosses, chess pieces, amulets, chilling balls, badges of office and magnifying glasses. The facets of rock crystal as a material, its processing, uses and symbolic interpretation are illustrated from the perspective of art, mineralogy, archaeology, philology and optics.

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À propos de l'auteur

Manuela Beer has been the deputy director at the Museum Schnutgen, Cologne, since 2012.

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Cooler and harder than glass, but softer than a diamond: rock crystal has always been regarded as an unusual material. Countless legends have grown up around its origins and its remarkable strengths. At the latest since Antiquity, rock crystal has played an important part as a remedy, for fortune-telling, in the Church and at courtly banquets. Breath-taking artworks have been assembled in this publication.

For a long time, people assumed that rock crystal was water that had been solidified to form eternal ice. They used it to create objects with the aura of the divine. From Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages, the spectrum of works extended from vessels for sacred and profane objects to crosses, chess pieces, amulets, chilling balls, badges of office and magnifying glasses. The facets of rock crystal as a material, its processing, uses and symbolic interpretation are illustrated from the perspective of art, mineralogy, archaeology, philology and optics.

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Éditeur
Hirmer Verlag
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
377744054X
ISBN 13 
9783777440545
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
432
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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