Encouraging the study of the jewellery as a academic discipline and analysingit how a that dialogue with the different arts and the artists in an international context and in a chronological frame that achieves since the mediaeval period until the individualised jewels of the contemporary authors are the aims of the Congress.

The attention will be focus on the analysis of the jewel in relation to the visual arts and the fields of artistic creation: since the jewels were painted in the Romanesque painting, the Gothic altarpieces, the embroideries and the mediaeval manuscripts until the pictorial and sculptural values of the modern jewels. Moreover, it will be study the jewel as a diffusing vehicle of the artistic currents or as a transversal path for part of the artists unconnected to the world of the jewellery, and the jewel understood as a expression of an artistic universe in miniature, beyond their superficial concept and of an object of luxury, reflection of the magnificence of the materials. The collecting of the jewellery, private and public, will deserve a special attention.

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PROGRAM

Scientific direction: Mariàngels Fondevila, curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

Scientific Commitee

• M. Antonia Herradón, curator, Museo del Traje, Madrid
• Joan Domenge, permanent lecturer, Departament of Art History, Universitat de Barcelona
• Daniel Giralt-Miracle, art critic and design historian, member of the Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi, Barcelona
• Maria Sframeli, former director, Museu degli Argenti, Florence
• Gonçalo de Vasconçelos e Sousa, professor, Escola das Artes da Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto
• Kirstin Kennedy, curator, Metalwork Department , collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
• Jaume Mercadé, jeweller-gemmologist, Col·legi Oficial de Joiers, d’Orfebres, de Rellotgers i de Gemmòlegs de Catalunya (JORGC), Barcelona

Thursday 17th November

9 am Reception and presentation of documentation

9.45-10 am Welcome and introduction

Mariàngels Fondevila

SESSION 1: THE ART JEWEL AND THE ARTIST'S JEWEL

Moderator: Daniel Giralt-Miracle

10 am Las joyas de Salvador Dalí 

Lourdes Cirlot, professor of Art History, vice-rector of Institutional Relations Culture, Universitat de Barcelona

10.15 am L’androgínia en les joies d’Ismael Smith

Josep Casamartina i Parassols, historian and art critic

10.30 am La joya como recurso estético y simbólico de la obra de Néstor Martín-Fernández de la Torre

Daniel Montesdeoca, managing director , Museo Néstor, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

10.45 am Joyería contemporánea: una superficie de escritura

Ana Campos, Designer and jewellery philosopher

11 am René Lalique

Nuno Vassallo e Silva, Head, Collections Management, Museo Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon

Discussion

11.45-12.15 pm Break/Coffee

12.15 pm La immanència de la pintura en les joies d’Eduard Alcoy

Rosa Alcoy, Professor of Art History, Universitat de Barcelona

12:30 pm L’art i la joieria contemporània i els límits del cos

Silvia Rosés, Doctor of Art History and lecturer at the Escola Massana i de BAU, Centre Universitari de Disseny de Barcelona

12.45 pm Innovation or Mimesi?

Barbara Schmidt, Head, Akademie Für Gestaltung und Design, Munich

1 pm Artistas joyeros

Ana Cicuéndez Chamorro, restorer, gemmologist and valuer, Madrid

1.15 pm Jewels as Artworks: Prêt-à-Porter Art in Post-war Italy

Flavia Frigeri, Teaching Fellow, University College, London

Discussion

2-3.30 pm      Lunch
 

SESSION 2: VICISSITUDES AND JEWELLERY COLLECTING (part 1)

Moderator: M. Antonia Herradón

3.30 pm Las joyas de la corona española en tiempos de guerra: 1808-1814

Amelia Aranda Huete, curator, Manager of the Royal Collections, Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid

3.45 pm The French Crown Jewels and Splendours' Exodus to America: Tiffany & Co.

Amy McHugh, Assistant Curator, Tiffany & Co. Archives, New Jersey

4 pm La joyería tradicional mallorquina a través de las colecciones privadas

Elvira González Gozalo, ex-director, Museu de Lluc, Reial Acadèmia Mallorquina d’Estudis Històrics, Palma de Mallorca

4.15 pm Romancing the Stone: Victoria, Albert and the Koh-i-Noor Diamond

Siddhartha V. Shah, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, New York

Discussion

4.45-5 pm      Break

5 pm The Art of Glass and Jewellery: The Use of Goldstone, or Aventurine Glass, in an Early Eighteenth-century Dutch Necklace

Suzanne van Leeuwen, Junior Curator/Conservator of Jewellery, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

5.15 pm Gemmòleg, una professió que no ho és

Carlos Báguena, gemmologist, member of the JORGC, Barcelona

5.30 pm Presentation D’Or Museu (Castell de Sant Julià de Ramis, Girona)

Friday 18th November

SESSION 2: VICISSITUDES AND JEWELLERY COLLECTING (2a part)

Moderator: M. Antonia Herradón

9 am A Brief Career of Pride and Folly and Extravagances’: Edmund Waterton’s Ring Collection and the Victoria and Albert Museum

Rachel Church, Curator in the Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramics and Glass Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

9.15 am A Collection in Context. The Production of Handmade Hollow Jewellery

Ana Cristina Sousa, Assistant Professor in the Department of Heritage Studies, Faculty of Arts, Universidade do Porto

9.30 am Paper Gems: The Archive of Frank Gardner Hale (1876-1945)

Meghan Melvin, Curator of Design, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

9.45 am Provence-Golconda, Seventeenth-century French Jewellers at the Mughal Court and the Antiquarium Origins of Jewellery History

Peter N. Miller, Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, New York

Discussion

10.15-10:45 am      Break/Coffee
 
SESSION 3: JEWELLERY AS A SYNTHESIS OF ART

Moderator: Kirstin Kennedy

10:45 am El Joyero del autor dramático Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953)

Claudette Joannis, Conservateur en Chef Honoraire du Patrimoine, París

11 am Jewellery Images of Cavazza Gift to «Vittorio Zironi» Tapestry Museum in Bologna: Aemilia Ars and Alfonso Rubbiani

Francesca Ghiggini, Art Historian and Ex Curator, «Vittorio Zironi» Tapestry Museum, Bologna

11.15 am Un pinjante de león pasante documentado en el Joyero de la Virgen del Pilar, ya en 1528

Carolina Naya Franco, assistant lecturer, Department of Art History, Universidad de Zaragoza

11.30 am Celebration of Love, Life & Faith Through Jewellery in India; Harappa to Cartier & Van Cleef & Arpels

Seema Bhalla, Art Historian, Curator & Critic, Freelance Writer on Culture, Heritage, Art & Architecture

11.45 am De moneda a joia: reflexions sobre la reutilització ornamental del numerari

Albert Estrada-Rius, head curator, Gabinet Numismàtic de Catalunya, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

Discussion

12.15-12.45 pm  Break

12.45 pm Las hebillas en los Llibres de Passanties

M. Antonia Herradón, curator, Museo del Traje, CIPE, Madrid

1 pm Coral, Staghorn, a Blood-ring: Dr W. L. Hildburgh's 1917 Gift of Amulets to the V&A

Frances Parton, Curator of Collections and Interiors at English Heritage

1.15 pm Fermalls «grans, bells, i cars». Documents i testimonis figuratius per a la història de la joieria gòtica catalana

Jacobo Vidal, lecturer in the Department of Art, Universitat de Barcelona

1.30 pm Miniature Reliquaries and Book-Shaped Pendants. Shaping and Experiencing Interior Space: Religious Jewellery in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times

Silke Tammen and Romina Ebenhöch, Institute of Art History, Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen, Germany

Discussion

2-3.30 pm      Lunch

SESSION 4: THE SYMBOLISM OF THE JEWEL

Moderator: Albert Estrada-Rius

3.30 pm Speaker to be confirmed

3.45 pm Joies i superstició. Penjolls de corall i amulets a la Catalunya del gòtic

Anna Orriols, lecturer, Department of Art and Musicology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

4 pm L’anell com a símbol d’estatus a la Catalunya de la plena edat mitjana

Joan Duran-Porta, professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

4.15 pm Los dijeros de cristianar a los niños en La Alberca, Salamanca

José Luis Puerto, ethnographer, Salamanca

Discussion

4.45-5.15 pm Break

5.15 pm Representaçoes fito e zoomórficas na joalharia em Portugal no século XIX 

Gonçalo de Vasconçelos e Sousa, Escola das Artes da Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto

5.30 pm Relicarios: las joyas olvidadas de Latinoamérica 

Martha J. Egan, Research Associate Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

5.45 pm The Ship Pendant in Early Modern Venice: A symbol of the Serenissima

Anastazja Buttitta, Research Assistant, PhD Candidate, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

6. pm The World in a Gem

Ashley Elizabeth Jones, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Florida

6.15 pm Closing recital

Air des bijoux from the opera Faust by C. Gounod

Glitter and be gay from the opera Candide by L. Berenstein

Natasha Tupin, soprano

Josep Buforn, piano