Italian Silver Jewelry – Statement of Originality and Luxury
Friday, March 18th, 2011A good example of this tradition is Fortunato Pio Castellani, who opened his Italian jewelry workshop in Rome around 1814, the first of the designs popular in fashion jewelry. By 1830 he had become inspired by the Etruscan discoveries of ancient Italian jewelry. Castellani became the first 19th-century jeweler to create works closely modeled on [...]