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9781606069622

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""Beyond Adornment takes the reader on a captivating journey through time and across cultures worldwide, reflecting on the fundamental human desire to wear jewelry. A wide array of fascinating jewels from the ordinary to the extraordinary give insight into the personal lives and public faces of individual wearers, revealing how jewelry has accompanied us from the cradle to the grave. A stunning selection of sculptures and portraits bring the subject to life, showing how jewelry is more than simply adornment."" --Beatriz Chadour-Sampson, jewelry historian, author, curator and lecturer

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Yvonne J . Markowitz is the Rita J. Kaplan and Susan B. Kaplan Curator Emerita of Jewelry at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Susanne Gansicke is senior conservator and head of antiquities conservation at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

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