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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 10 January 2013
- ISBN 9780199739318
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 211x147x30 mm
- Weight 431 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 halftones 0
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Short description:
Medusa's Gaze provides the first dedicated account of the origins and extraordinary survival of an exquisite agate bowl from ancient Alexandria to the modern day as it passed through the hands of some of history's most influentional, and colorful, characters.
MoreLong description:
The banded agate bowl known as the Tazza Farnese is one of the most famous and admired objects from classical antiquity. That it has survived at all is a miracle. In this, the first book-length account of the "life" of this renowned masterpiece, art historian Marina Belozerskaya takes readers on a fascinating trip through history that spans two millennia and journeys from the court of Cleopatra to the sack of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade, from Samarqand of Tamerlane to Renaissance Florence under Lorenzo de' Medici, from Baroque Rome to Enlightenment Naples. Along the way, the reader encounters the illustrious as well as the shady figures who have come into contact with this prized artifact, from emperors and conquerors, popes and princes, and artists like Botticelli and Raphael, to forgers, thieves, and a disgruntled museum guard who nearly destroyed the Tazza for all posterity. Through the prism of this most precious bowl, Medusa's Gaze brings history vividly and intimately to life.
The Tazza Farnese's story is remarkable, and Belozerskaya tells it well.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
2. Carved Gems and Romans
3. Constantinople: the Past Acquired, Revived, and Ransacked
4. Frederick II: the Quest for a New Roman Empire
5. Timur, the Conqueror of Asia
6. The Great Collectors of the Renaissance
7. In a Woman's Hands
8. Gems and Ruins in Bourbon Naples
9. Beauty Broken, Beauty Restored
Acknowledgments
Cast of Characters
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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