From the 1500s to the first decades of the 17th century, the history of European ornamentation enjoyed a true golden age. Before the Renaissance, jewelry had never been worn in such abundance by both men and women. Never had sovereigns and their courts sparkled with such splendor.
For the exhibition "Gold and Glitter: Renaissance Jewels" at the Fondation Bemberg in Toulouse, Julie Rohou, Heritage Curator and Exhibition Curator, and Marie-Laure Cassius-Duranton, Lecturer-Researcher at L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts, invite you to discover jewels steeped in meaning, fusing the personal and pomp, self-expression and reflections of the society in which they were produced.
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