The shell : five hundred million years of inspired design /
Presents a profusely illustrated introduction to shells. Includes a brief description of shell history, shell lore, and their influence on art.
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Μορφή: | Βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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New York :
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers,
[1968]
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Shells and man
- Shells as an economic factor
- A religious symbol
- Pre-Columbian America
- Middle ages: St. James and the scallop shell
- Heraldry
- The Renaissance
- The late Renaissance and the Baroque
- The eighteenth century: Rococo
- The Victorian approach
- The emerging science of malacology
- The shell in the twentieth century.