17 décembre 2023
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Malcolm Walsby, « Renaissance jewellery in the archives », Renaissances : archives et découvertes, ID : 10.58079/vo0j
Though it is nowadays often forgotten, jewellery was an important part of Renaissance art. If Benvenuto Cellini's entertaining memoirs give us a vivid insight into goldsmith's work in the sixteenth century, much of the Renaissance production has been lost over time - indeed much of Cellini's work no longer survives and is only known through his own descriptions. Though Cellini documented his own production (and frequently proclaimed his own genius) in his writings, it is mainly in the notari...