Study Days - January 2024 Edition

“Precious Ornaments”

Study Days organized by L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts with the support of Van Cleef & Arpels and the Collège de France on January 25th and 26th 2024

Study Days "Functions of Precious Ornament in the European Courts at the end of the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance"

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

Program

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. 

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Thursday, January 25th, 2024

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)

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Friday, January 26th, 2024

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