Analysis of the Fettercairn Jewel and comparative Scottish Renaissance jewellery
Resource type
Book chapter
Creator (person)
Troalen, Lore
Abstract
Renaissance jewellery pieces often demonstrate highly developed artistic and technological skills and combine precious gemstones, pearls, gold, translucent and opaque enamels to reflect an individual's wealth, social status or political loyalties.1
Although there has been significant research published on Renaissance jewellery from an art historical point of view, the amount of analytical data available on the materials used in their making is somewhat sparse for the sixteenth century.2
Book title
Decoding the jewels: Renaissance jewellery in Scotland
Editor
Groundwater, Anna
Volume
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Pagination
179-197
Publisher
Sidestone
Place of publication
Leiden, Netherlands
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In Copyright