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Mourning Art and Jewelry (Hardcover)
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Mourning Art and Jewelry (Hardcover)
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Decorative art created to memorialize and commemorate death has
been a part of Western culture for centuries. Extraordinarily
beautiful examples of mourning art and memorial jewelry for members
of royalty and the aristocracy date back to the 16th century in
England and Europe. Medieval references to commemorative art
predate even the extant pieces now in museums. During the Georgian
and Victorian eras, outstanding pieces of mourning jewelry and
artwork were found in a majority of homes in America, Britain, and
Europe. Without being morbid or macabre, this book provides a
fascinating text about mourning practices and historical influences
that shaped individual and cultural perspectives surrounding death
in the 18th and 19th centuries. During these centuries, memorial
art reached its zenith in artistic beauty and some of the finest
examples from collections in America, England, France, Germany, and
Switzerland are featured here. Over 500 color photos display
jewelry, portrait miniatures, pottery and glassware, paintings and
sculpture, posthumous photographs, hair-work memorials, and more.
Current values are provided in the captions. Historians, dealers,
and collectors alike will find this book an excellent resource for
Victoriana, Georgian and Victorian memorial arts, and antique
jewelry, subjects never before treated together in a single volume.
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