Word: goldwork
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beaux Arts is one of the best museums outside Paris -- all the more since the reopening of 16 restored rooms in the north wing of the Palais Saint-Pierre. Among the 150 paintings, 70 sculptures and 250 objets d'art on display are medieval French ivories, enamels and goldwork; 10th to 14th century Islamic ceramics, arms and copperware; and Italian Renaissance sculpture, including Andrea Della Robbia's Virgin and Child and Mino da Fiesole's bust, St. John the Baptist. Seven of the rooms are devoted to painting: 17th century French works by Stella, Le Brun and Jouvenet, as well...
...those of the Shang period, 2,100 years earlier. Roman sculptors in the 2nd century A.D. made versions of 5th century B.C. Greek prototypes, and from then on, there would be an immense industry in the copying, overrestoration and outright forgery of everything antique -- marbles, bronzes, pots, cameo gems, goldwork...
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