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Jewelry Making:
Past & Present
The Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem recently opened
a new exhibit, “Jewelry Making: Past & Present.” Included
are jewelry and artifacts from Christianity, Judaism, and Islam,
the three monotheistic religions prominent in Jerusalem.
Among them are 45 contemporary works commissioned by
the museum and inspired by rare historic pieces, which are
also displayed. The exhibit will also include a collection of
ecclesiastical metalwork from the Franciscan Order of monks
and a selection of Jewish vessels and amulets from
a private collection. The metalwork dates from the
16th to 19th centuries.
The exhibit runs through
November 16, 2019.
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Forehead Ornament
India, 19th CenturyIdo Noy
Jerusalem of Gold —
Crown of Walls, 2019
Inspired by Forehead
OrnamentThe Colmar
Treasure
For more than 500 years, a small cache of jewelry and coins
lay hidden within the walls of a house in Colmar, France.
Secreted there in the 14th century and discovered in 1863, the
Colmar Treasure — now in the collection of the Musée de Cluny,
Paris — includes rings, brooches, and decorative buttons, as
well additional jewelry pieces and more than 300 coins. The
possessions of a single family, the hoard has been linked to
Colmar’s once-thriving Jewish community, who were brutally
scapegoated and put to death when the plague struck the region
with devastating ferocity in 1348–49.
The collection is currently on display at the Met Cloisters, a
division of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as “The
Colmar Treasure: A Medieval Jewish Legacy.” The exhibit will run
January 12, 2020.
More at http://www.metmuseum .orgJewish Wedding Ring
ca. 1300-1348
Gold, opaque and translucent enamel
PHOTO: MUSÉE DE CLUNY — MUSÉE NATIONAL
DU MOYEN ÂGE, © RMN-GRAND PALAIS / ART
RESOURCE, NY