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Until the early 2000s, little had been written about eye miniatures or "lover's eyes," and their short-lived popularity at the end of the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, when hand-painted portraits of single human eyes were set in jewelry, or made to memorialize a deceased loved one. This new expanded and updated edition of the 2012 volume *The Look of Love* examines their role in the broader context of Georgian and early Victorian portrait miniatures; and looks in detail at the creation, and appeal, of these extraordinary objects.

Dr. and Mrs. David A. Skier's collection of eye miniatures is one of the most complete collections of this genre of miniature painting anywhere in existence. This volume features over 130 pieces from the Skier Collection, with thirty-six extraordinary new acquisitions including two of the three known examples of "lover's lips," and an exceedingly rare "flower eye." Five other "flower eyes" from museums and other collectors also feature in the book. There are four new illustrated essays: on forgeries and fakes of lover's eyes, on "flower eyes," on the persistence of the eye image which continues the tradition of lover's eyes, and on the eye miniatures created by Richard Cosway.

Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- Painting --- miniatures [paintings] --- lockets --- jewelry --- eye portraits --- portraits