Le bijou dessiné, designing jewels. Rome from which his art borrows

from which his art borrows many traits

although it may seem more classical with its figures or landscapes

leveling the ridges and ends

Toutes étaient l’oeuvre de l’art des hommes : statues

after several decades of development of Roman citizenship but before the choice of the emperor Caracalla to grant it to all the free inhabitants of the empire

Le bijou dessiné, designing jewels. Rome from which his art borrowsJewelry design has long remained hidden from public view. Whether functional or the bearers of unfulfilled dreams, these paper jewels have nevertheless, since the 15th century, been the shadowy side of the models to which they often gave birth. This book presents around a hundred drawings, mainly from the Van Cleef & Arpels Collection on Jewelry Culture, dating from the second half of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century. It sheds