Study Days - January 2026 Edition

L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts and the Collège de France organize two Study Days on January 29th and 30th, 2026, on the topic of: "Metamorphoses of Jewelry and Precious Arts Between Neoclassicism and Industrial Revolution in Europe (1750-1900)".

Under the direction of Guillaume Glorieux, Director of Education and Research at L'ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts, Marie-Laure Cassius-Duranton, research professor at L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts, and Francesco Solinas, Associate Professor at the Collège de France. 

Collège de France, L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts (with the support of Van Cleef & Arpels), le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), République des Savoirs et L’École Normale Supérieure (ENS)

Collège de France, salle 2 
11, place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris 

Free admission, subject to availability.

You can also follow the event online. Please register using the links below.

Morning

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10 a.m.: Francesco Solinas (Collège de France)

Welcome

10.10 a.m.: Guillaume Glorieux (L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts)

Preamble

10.20 a.m.: Marie-Laure Cassius-Duranton (L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts): Presentation of Precious Ornaments 3, proceedings of the third edition of the Study Days on Precious Ornaments

Session Chairperson : Guillaume Glorieux (L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts)

10.30 a.m. - 11.10 a.m.: Fanny Balian (EHESS, Paris): Splendor and Lights, Armenians and Diamonds from India to the West in the 18th Century

Break

11.30 a.m. - 12.10 p.m.: Wim Nys (DIVA Museum, Antwerp): Unpublished News About the Work and Life of the Jeweler Louis Vander Cruycen (1743-1818), who was active in Brussels and Paris as a Publisher of Ornamental Prints

12.10 p.m. - 12.50 p.m.: Michele Amedei (Università di Pisa): Between Dominique Ingres and François-Xavier Fabre: the Jewelry in Giuseppe Bezzuoli (1784-1855)’s Portraits

Lunch Break

Afternoon

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Session Chairperson : Francesco Solinas (Collège de France)

3 p.m. - 3.40 p.m.: Jonas Jückstock (Schatzkammer, Residenz, Munich): The Crown Jewels of Bavaria Seen through the Eyes of a Restorer

3.40 p.m. - 4.20 p.m.: Luana Toniolo (Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, Rome): Rediscovering Antiquity: Fortunato Pio Castellani and the Birth of the "Oreficeria archeologica italiana"

Break

4.40 p.m. - 5.20 p.m.: Céline Gaslain (L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts) : Near Eastern Archaeology and European Jewelry (1840-1910)

Morning

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Session Chairperson : Marie-Laure Cassius-Duranton (L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts)

10 a.m. - 10.40 a.m.: Lia Lenti (Independant Researcher, Italy): Camillo Bertuzzi, Jewelry Designer Overview of his Stays in Paris

10.40 a.m. - 11.20 a.m.: Florent Guérif  (L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts): A New Status for Precious Arts: the Recognition of Jewelry as an Art Form at the End of the 19th Century in France.

Break

11.40 a.m. - 12.20 p.m.: Emanuelle Pellegrini (Scuola IMT Alti Studi, Lucca): Designing Jewels : the Notebooks of Italian Goldsmiths at the End of the 19th Century

12.20 p.m. - 1 p.m.: Sophie Guermann (Université de Neufchatel, INHA, Ecole du Louvre): The Status and Sale of the French Crown Jewels in the 19th Century

Lunch Break

Afternoon

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Session Chairperson : Francesco Solinas (Collège de France)

3.30 p.m. - 4.10 p.m.: Emmanuelle Amiot (L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts): "Corinthe" by Jean-Léon Gérôme : the Challenges of Incarnation, and the Role of Jewelry

4.10 p.m. - 4.50 p.m.: Isabelle Frank (Independant Researcher, Hong Kong) : The Theory of Precious Ornaments at the End of the 19th Century, particularly in the Work of Georg Simmel

4.50 p.m. - 5.30 p.m.: Discussion & Conclusions