Sixteenth-century-style pendant
19th century
Medium
Gold, pearls, sapphire, enamel
Dimensions
Overall: 1 3/4 × 1 in. (4.4 × 2.5 cm)
Classification
Metalwork-Gold and Platinum|Jewelry
Culture
Italian
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Accession Number
17.190.868
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About this artwork
This pendant exemplifies the nineteenth-century Renaissance Revival phenomenon, when growing collector enthusiasm for sixteenth-century jewelry combined with limited availability of authentic pieces to inspire skilled recreations. Crafted in nineteenth-century Italy in the style of Albrecht Dürer, this piece employs gold, pearls, sapphire, and enamel to evoke the splendor of High Renaissance ornamentation. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's important 2011 essay "Renaissance Enameled Gold Jewelry: ...
About the Artist
Albrecht Dürer · 1471–1528
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) stands as the preeminent figure of the Northern Renaissance and arguably the most influential artist in the history of printmaking. Born in Nuremberg on May 21, 1471, and dying in the same city on April 6, 1528, Dürer revolutionized the status of the artist in Northern Europe, transforming printmaking from a commercial craft into an independent fine art and establishing ...