Description
| Summary: | "We often imagine the Renaissance as an age of exceptional human progress and artistic achievement. But, intriguingly, macabre images proliferated in precisely this period: unsettling depictions of Death personified, of decaying bodies, of young lovers struck down in their prime. These morbid themes run riot in the remarkable array of artworks featured in The Ivory Mirror. Nearly 200 illustrated artworks--from ivory prayer beads to gem-encrusted jewelry to exquisitely carved small sculptures--present us with an aspect of this era that is at once darker and more familiar than we might have expected"--Publisher's description.
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| Item Description: | "This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe, presented at Bowdoin College Museum of Art from June 24 to November 26, 2017"--page following page 279. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (279 pages, 61 pages of color plates) : 161 illustrations (some color) |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9780300260007
0300260008 |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on March 18, 2021). |
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