Young researchers Study Day 2025

L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts, with the support of Van Cleef & Arpels, is organizing its new Young researchers Study Day on Wednesday, November 19th, 2025.

It will bring together young researchers in art history who work on jewelry, its representation, on goldsmithing or gemmology. This day will be structured around 3 themes: “From the Middle Ages to its reinterpretation“, “Jewelry between cultural identity and adaptation“, and “Representing and presenting jewelry: the question of status“.

This biennial event aims to promote the dynamism of research at the Master's and Doctoral levels around jewelry subjects and to make it accessible to the public.

Photo: 
Gold & amethyst jewelry set, circa 1825-1835
© L'ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts, photo: Benjamin Chelly

I. From the Middle Ages to its Reinterpretation 

9:30 a.m. - Ava Tamisier, “The symbolism of precious stones during the Middle Ages : between belief and aesthetics“

10 a.m. - Andrea Pazery, “Spectometric study of the gems in the reliquary cross of Castelnau-de-Montmiral (14th Century)“

10:30 a.m. - Airelle Haméon, “Neo-Gothic inspiration in the work of Pierre-George Deraisme (1859-1932)“

II. Jewelry between cultural identity and adaptation  

11:30 a.m. - Maëlle Pasquet, “Minoan goldsmithing in the time of the first palaces: the beginnings of an "Egyptianizing" art?“

12 p.m. - Guillermo Alfonso De la Torre y Lucquin, “Devotional and traveling jewelry from New Spain: presentation of a globalized corpus from the second half of the 16th century“

12:30 p.m. - Alma Mary, “From Rouvenat to Després, the turning point of a jewelry house at the end of the 19th century“

III. Representing and presenting jewelry: the challenges of status  

2:30 p.m. - Hortense Édouard, “Typology and representation of jewelry in French and Flemish painting of the 15th Century“

3 p.m. - Chloé Auberville, “Jewelry and adornment in portraits of socialites by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)“

3:30 p.m. - Alyette de Royère, “The Dufferin Diadem: Diamond clovers between intimacy and power in the Victorian era“

4 p.m. - Chloé-Eléonore Cyrille, “La Gazette Drouot, catalyst for the recognition of Juliette Moutard (1900-1990) in the art market“