Lover's Eyes: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection
Until the early 2000s, little had been written about eye miniatures or "Lover's Eyes", and their short-lived popularity at the end of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries, when hand-painted…
Specifikacia Lover's Eyes: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection
Until the early 2000s, little had been written about eye miniatures or "Lover's Eyes", and their short-lived popularity at the end of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries, when hand-painted portraits of single human eyes were set in jewelry, or created to memorialize a deceased loved one. This volume examines their role in the broader context of Georgian and early Victorian portrait miniatures; and looks in detail at the creation, and appeal, of these extraordinary objects. Dr and Mrs. David A. Skier's collection of eye miniatures is one of the most complete collections of this genre of miniature painting in existence. This volume features over 130 pieces from the Skier Collection, with 36 extraordinary newly acquired pieces, including two of the three known existing "Lover's Lips", and six examples of a delightful sub-category known as "Flower Eyes". There are illustrated