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An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour - The Harvard Art Museums' Forbes Pigment Collection by Victoria Finlay
Category: Art and Design
The Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museums possesses over 2500 of the world¿s rarest pigments. Visually and anthropologically excavating the extraordinary collection,Atelier Editions¿ monograph examines the contained artefacts¿ providence, composition, symbology ...Show more
An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour -The Harvard Art Museums' Forbes Pigment Collection by Victoria Finlay (Foreword by); Narayan Khandekar (Introduction by); Kingston Trinder (Introductions and notes by); Pascale Georgiev (Photographer)
Category: Art and Design
The Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museums possesses over 2500 of the world’s rarest pigments. Visually and anthropologically excavating the extraordinary collection, Atelier Editions’ monograph examines the contained artefacts’ providence, composition, symbology ...Show more
Buried Treasure by Victoria Finlay
Category: Natural History
From the author of "Colour": an adventurous journey in search of the secret history of gemstones. Amber is the tears of prehistoric trees. Peridot falls to earth from space. You can grow opals in your back garden. One gem links Queen Victoria and a transvestite skeleton. Cleopatra drank a pearl to win a ...Show more
Buried Treasure : Travels through the Jewel Box by Victoria Finlay
Category: Travel Literature
Amber is the tears of prehistoric trees. Peridot falls to earth from space. You can grow opals in your back garden. One gem links Queen Victoria and a transvestite skeleton. Cleopatra drank a pearl to win a bet. A man has turned into a diamond. From the bestselling author of ColourÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃ ...Show more
Colour by Victoria Finlay
Category: Art and Design
Discover the tantalizing true stories behind your favorite colors. For example: Cleopatra used saffron—a source of the color yellow—for seduction. Extracted from an Afghan mine, the blue “ultramarine” paint used by Michelangelo was so expensive he couldn’t afford to buy it himself. Since ancient times, ...Show more
Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox by Victoria Finlay
Category: Travel
Part travelogue, part narrative history, Colour unlocks the history of the colours of the rainbow, and reveals how paints came to be invented, discovered, traded and used. This remarkable and beautifully written book remembers a time when red paint was really the colour of blood, when orange was the poi ...Show more
Colour : Travels through the paintbox by Victoria Finlay
Category: Travel Literature
Part travelogue, part narrative history, Colour unlocks the history of the colours of the rainbow, and reveals how paints came to be invented, discovered, traded and used. This remarkable and beautifully written book remembers a time when red paint was really the colour of blood, when orange was the ...Show more
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World by Victoria Finlay
Category: History
A magnificent work of original research that unravels history through textiles and cloth -- how we make it, use it, and what it means to us. How is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest? Why is a famous fabric pattern from India best known by the name of a Scottish town? How is a Chinese dr ...Show more
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World by Victoria Finlay
Category: Fashion
A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth - how we make it, use it and what it means to us. From our earliest ancestors to babies born today, fabric is a necessary part of our everyday lives, but it's also an opportunity for creativity, symbolism, culture and connection. T ...Show more
Jewels by Victoria Finlay
Category: Fashion
'Glorious . . . anecdote and information accumulate with marvellous abundance and a passionate sense of the fascination of jewels . . . a wonderfully generous gift' - John de Falbe, Spectator In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her own globe-circling search for the real sto ...Show more
Jewels: A Secret History by Victoria Finlay
Category: Travel Literature
Victoria Finlay's intrepid journeys to discover the secret history of gemstones, from the Baltic Amber Road to the emerald mines of Afghanistan.
Jewels A Secret History by Victoria Finlay
Category: History
Throughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her own globe-circling search for the real stories behind some of the gems we prize most. Blending adventure t ...Show more