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Cluster Brooch with Letters Spelling "Amor"
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Title:
Cluster Brooch with Letters Spelling "Amor"
Caption:
Cluster Brooch with Letters Spelling "Amor". Culture: French. Dimensions: Overall: 1 1/8 x 15/16 x 9/16 in. (2.9 x 2.4 x 1.4 cm). Date: mid-15th century.
This gold cluster jewel includes the Latin word amor (love) in delicate gold letters. It could have been worn either as a pendant or a brooch, and in portraits of young women many similar jewels are seen in their hair or at the shoulder or neck. Expensive jewelry played an important role in betrothal and marriage, and the groom gave brooches to the bride as tokens of love. In 1447, for example, Marco Parenti gave his betrothed, Caterina Strozzi, a golden brooch with two sapphires and three pearls to be worn on her shoulder.
Technique/material:
Gold, pearl, emerald, silver pin
Museum:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Credit:
Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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Image size:
3150 x 4200 px | 37.9 MB
Print size:
26.7 x 35.6 cm | 10.5 x 14.0 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
BERYL • BROOCHES • CLOISTERS, THE • COSTUME • EMERALD • EUROPE • FRANCE • GOLD • GOLD, PEARL, EMERALD, SILVER PIN • JEWELRY • JEWELRY: PEARLS • METAL • METALWORK • METALWORK-GOLD • METALWORKS • METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, USA • PEARL • PEARLS • PINS • SILVER
