The Poniatowski Gems

This bilingual volume tells the story of Stanislaw Poniatowski's extensive gem collection, comprised of a series of recreations of Greek and Roman engravings that were long believed to be original. Text in English and Italian.

A prince, collector, patron of the arts, and refined connoisseur of antiquity, Stanislaw Poniatowski (Warsaw, 1754 – Florence, 1833) devoted much of his life to an endeavor as ambitious as it was extraordinary: to recreate, through the art of glyptics (the art of incis...