Julia Kagan

Julia Kagan is the Curator of post-Classical engraved gems in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. She has contributed to the history of glyptics in Great Britain with major publications, such as Gem engraving in Britain from antiquity to the present (2010), and curated important exhibitions, such as the gem collection of the Duc D’Orleans in Paris (2001).

BOOKS BY THIS CONTRIBUTOR

Natter’s Museum Britannicum: British gem collections and collectors of the mid-eighteenth century

Julia Kagan

This book presents the first comprehensive publication of Lorenz Natter’s (1705- 1763) Museum Britannicum, offering full discussion in English and presenting Natter’s drawings and comments alongside modern information on the ancient and later engraved gems that can be identified and located through fresh research. READ MORE

Paperback: £55.00