L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts and the Collège de France organized two Study Days on January 25th and 26th, 2024, on the topic of: "Precious ornament and jewelry in the art and life of European courts between Renaissance and Baroque".
Photo: Enameled gold and ruby ring, 16th century. L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts Collection. Photo: Benjamin Chelly
January 25th - 26th, 2024 (Thu - Fri)
Under the direction of Francesco Solinas, Associate Professor at the Collège de France, Marie-Laure Cassius-Duranton, research professor at L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts and Guillaume Glorieux, Director of Education and Research at L'ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts.
Morning
10am: Francesco Solinas (Collège de France) : Welcome
10.10am: Guillaume Glorieux (L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts) : Preamble
10.20am: Marie-Laure Cassius-Duranton (L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts) : Presentation of L’ornement précieux 1, proceedings of the first edition of the Study Days on Precious Ornaments
Session Chairperson: Francesco Solinas (Collège de France)
10.30am-11.10am: Federica Veratelli (Università degli studi di Parma): « Garniz de beaucop de bonnes et riches pierres ». The formidable documentary and iconographic history of the jewels of the House of Burgundy and Habsburg (in French)
11.10am-11.50am: Dora Thornton (Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, Londres): Politics, Piety and Allegiance: a journey through jewels from the Tudor courts. (in English)
Break: 11.50am-12.10pm
12.10pm-12.50pm: Dominic Olariu (Universität Marburg) : Perfume as ornament. Pomanders and other aromatic jewels of the Renaissance. (in French)
12.50pm-1.30pm: Isabelle Paresys (Université de Lille) : Precious ornamentation in late-Renaissance European dress (in French)
Lunch Break : 1.30pm-3.30pm
Session Chairperson: Emmanuelle Amiot (L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts)
3.30pm-4.10pm: Pascal Bertrand (Université Bordeaux Montaigne) : Why can the Tenture des Valois be considered Catherine de Médicis' richest ornament? (in French)
4.10pm-5.50pm: Natasha Awais-Dean (King’s College, Londres): ‘…a warrant sufficient’: male identity, lineage, authority and homosocial bonds in early modern England. (in English)
Session Chairperson: Guillaume Glorieux (L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts)
10am-10.40am: Evelien Chayes (CNRS) : Jews in the culture of precious ornaments in Venice, Bordeaux and Amsterdam (1550-1650) (in French)
10.40am-11.20am: Léonard Pouy (L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts) : "The young man with the pearl". Life and death of England's crown jewels under Charles I. (in French)
11.20am-11.40am: Break
11.40am-12.20pm: Laura Bartoni (Università Telematica Internazionale Uninettuno, Rome): Precious ornaments and jewelry from the Casa Colonna. Functions and representations. (in French)
12.20pm-1.00pm: Francesco Solinas (Collège de France) : Precious ornaments and jewels: an itinerary in history painting from Lavinia Fontana to Nicolas Poussin. (in French)
1.00pm-3.00pm: Lunch Break
Session Chairperson: Marie-Laure Cassius-Duranton (L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts)
3.00pm-3.40pm: Maria Celeste Cola (independent researcher, Rome): Precious ornaments and dynastic jewels at the court of Rome between 1580 and 1650. (in French)
3.40pm-4.20pm: Veronica Carpita (Fondazione d’arte Trossi-Uberti, Livourne) : Jewelry from Antiquity. The first surveys of Etruscan and Roman jewelry (16th-18th centuries). (in French)
4.20pm-4.40pm: Break
4.40pm-5.20pm: Patrick Michel (Université de Lille) : The Gems of cardinal Mazarin (in French)
5.20-6pm: discussion, conclusions
Specialized in the history of documentary drawing and scientific illustration between the 16th and 17th centuries, expert in the development of genre painting (portrait, still life, flower painting, etc.), and in the development of the art of painting.
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