Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas Rucha Its engaging interactive format invites

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

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

Lucy Bradnock is assistant professor of art history at the University of Nottingham

to the pleasure of her father and his patron

ISBN 978-0-89236-956-0

Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas Rucha Its engaging interactive format invitesEdited 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,