Les Enluminures will inaugurate a special exhibition and catalogue at Frieze Masters in London. It consists of twenty artistically and historically important rings dating from Imperial Rome to the 20th century. The engaging title “The Fashioned Hand: Historic Finger Rings” deliberately blurs the distinctions between art, costume, and the body.
Sandra Hindman discusses the Museo dei Gioielli: in a restored Palladian building in the centre of Vicenza, the Basilica Palladiana, Alba Cappellieri oversees one of the few museums in the world entirely devoted to jewellery.
Beatriz Chadour will speak on "Love, Passion and Eternity – Expressed in Jewels" on January 20 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, during a study day on Love and Desire in Gems and Jewels
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