Earrings: From Antiquity to the Present - Daniela Mascetti - Hardcover

Daniela Mascetti and Amanda Triossi, both experts from Sotheby's, are themselves under the spell of earrings, and their erudition does not disguise that this book is as much a romance as a fine piece of art-historical research. The authors relate how the fashion of wearing precious earrings spread from ancient Egypt to the Classical Greek and Roman worlds to Byzantium. Techniques in the cutting of gemstones and diamonds, perfected in the eighteenth century, allowed earring design to evolve towards its most stylish and glamorous, and the book covers every period and style up to the present.Mascetti, Daniela is the author of 'Earrings: From Antiquity to the Present - Daniela Mascetti - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780847812301 and ISBN 0847812308.