The Berthouville Silver Treasure and Roman Luxury
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (526 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1606064207 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
RARE ROMAN LUXURIES A finely produced book of the Getty Museum with superb photographs including many details, exemplary scholarship, and elegant layout. The Berthouville Treasure was discovered by a French farmer in 1830 and consists of eighty-eight pieces of silver pl. One Star Nice photos but problem with editing. Information would be started, then it appears forgot to add page to the book
The Berthouville treasure, as the find came to be known, includes two statuettes representing the Gallo-Roman god Mercury and approximately sixty vessels—bowls, cups, pitchers, and plates, many of which bear votive inscriptions—along with dozens of smaller components and fragments. This sumptuously illustrated volume is published to accompany an exhibition of the same name, opening at the Getty Villa on November 18, 2014. In 1830 a farmer plowing a field near the village of Berthouville in Normandy, France, discovered a trove of ancient Roman silver objects weighing some 55 pounds (25 kilograms). It presents the highlights of the treasure and other Roman luxury arts from the holdings of the Cabinet des médailles—including precious gems, jewelry, gold coins, and colored marbles—and contextualizes them in a series of elucidating
Highly recommended.”—Choice. The essays are lucidly written; the illustrations, superb. “This exhibition catalogue is an excellent study of a spectacular silver hoard from an ancient Roman shrine dedicated to the god Mercury in an area near the French town of Berthouville