From Attila to Charlemagne : arts of the early medieval period in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title:
From Attila to Charlemagne : arts of the early medieval period in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author:
Brown, Katharine Reynolds, editor.
ISBN:
9780870999680
9780300088946
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvi, 395 pages, 18 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps, 1 port. ; 26 cm.
Series:
Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia ; 1.
General Note:
Papers presented at a symposium at the MMA called "The Morgan Collection and Related Migration Period Material" on May 22 and 23, 1995.
Contents:
Morgan -- The Man and the Collector / Morgan and the Formation of the Early Medieval Collection / Golden Age of Merovingian Archaeology / Niederbreisig Collection / From Attila to Charlemagne -- Some Classical Elements in Migration Period Jewelry / Late Roman and Early Byzantine Jewelry / Vermand Treasure / Luxury Brooch from the Second Szil©Łgy-Somly©đ Treasure? / Huns and Goths: Jewelry from the Ukraine and Southern Russia / On the Frontiers of Byzantium -- Domagnano Treasure / Langobardic Finds and the Archaeology of Central Italy / Some "Langobardic" Earrings / Vrap Treasure / Some Avar and Balkan Connections of the Vrap Treasure / Visigothic Jewelry of the Sixth and Seventh Centuries / Artistry in the West -- Garnet Jewelry of the Fifth and Sixth Centuries / Early Merovingian Women's Brooches / Aspects of Late Merovingian Costume in the Morgan Collection / Frankish Glass Vessels
Eclectic Art of the Early Anglo-Saxon Jewelry / Silver-Inlaid Iron Belt Fittings in the Morgan Collection / Some Scandinavian Art Styles / "Earlier" Lindau Book Cover: An Integrated Analysis
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