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Article: WORK OF ANCIENT CRAFTSMEN SHINES IN CHRYSLER'S SHOW OF GOLD JEWELRY MORE THAN 100 RARE ITEMS ON LOAN FROM THE DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART INCLUDE PIECES FROM GREECE, ROME AND ETRURIA.(DAILY BREAK)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
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- February 19, 2000
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GOLD JEWELRY reflecting more than a thousand years of Mediterranean history will come to the Chrysler Museum of Art next week.
``Ancient Gold Jewelry From the Dallas Museum of Art'' features more than 100 items. Most of it was recovered from tombs in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when there was growing interest in long-vanished civilizations. Less astute grave robbers would have been interested only in the value of the gold.
The jewelry - from ancient Etruria, Greece and Rome - attests to the artistry of the goldsmiths and to the wealth of its original owners. It is laden with symbolism and tantalizingly mysterious.
The Dallas Museum of Art ...