Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas Rucha the Black Plague

the Black Plague

Its engaging interactive format invites the reader to open a flap and see a beautiful color detail of one of Renoir's works and then to turn the page to see the full painting from which the detail is drawn

“Herb Ritts’s use of light

—Journal of Japanese Studies

a most worthwhile addition to any and all textile group's libraries

Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas Rucha the Black PlagueEdited by Joanne Pillsbury, Timothy Potts, and Kim N. Richter This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Presenting spectacular works from recent excavations in Peru,