“We think about vulcanized rubber as being the most quotidian material imaginable in the 21st century; it’s used to make car tires. But in the Victorian period … it was considered a material beautiful enough, rare enough, and valuable enough to make jewelry. – Jennifer Mass, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Cultural Heritage Science
“We think about vulcanized rubber as being the most quotidian material imaginable in the 21st century; it’s used to make car tires. But in the Victorian period … it was considered a material beautiful enough, rare enough, and valuable enough to make jewelry. – Jennifer Mass, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Cultural Heritage Science
Research Forum
Work-in-Progress: Jennifer L. Mass
Nineteenth-Century Black Patinas on Ancient Bronzes
September 22, 2020
