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This lavishly illustrated book brings together expert voices from the key Scottish collections to explore the making, meaning and function of such jewelry in sixteenth century Scotland.
For the first time, National Museums Scotland’s important collection of Renaissance jewelry from Scotland is considered together in this fully illustrated volume alongside significant items from the Royal Collection. The book was inspired by the acquisition by NMS of the extraordinary Fettercairn Jewel: the fine iconography of this exquisitely enameled locket held coded messages for its sixteenth century owners, and continues to intrigue its viewers today. Renaissance jewelry like this in Scotland is particularly notable given the rare survival of such jewels from the sixteenth century. Some of these owe their survival thanks to their association with Mary, Queen of Scots.
Elite Renaissance men and women commissioned, wore and gifted intricate and valuable pieces of jewelry. For most, this was not simply adornment, but used to communicate messages and display status. These were intimate personal possessions and suggest the meanings invested in them by their owners, that resonate with audiences today. Such jewels are evocative objects.
This lavishly illustrated book brings together expert voices from the key Scottish collections (National Museums Scotland, National Galleries of Scotland, Royal Collection Trust) to explore the making, meaning and function of such jewelry in sixteenth century Scotland, and features an interpretation of the Fettercairn Jewel by the jewelry expert Geoffrey Munn. It reveals hitherto underappreciated evidence of goldsmithing in Scotland while considering significant continental influences in the design and production of jewelry. Given the ephemeral nature, and rare survival of Renaissance jewelry, its authors also suggest alternative ways of tracing the gems that have gone, in the portraits and inventories of Scottish men and women.
Table of Contents
Author biographies
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Sam J.M.M. Alberti, Director of Collections, National Museums Scotland
1. The Renaissance in Scotland: historical and cultural contexts
Anna Groundwater, Principal Curator, Renaissance and Early Modern History, National Museums Scotland
2. The Fettercairn Jewel – An Interpretation
Geoffrey Munn, Art historian and jewellery specialist
3. The Mystery of the Fettercairn Jewel
Helen Wyld, Senior Curator of Historic Textiles, National Museums Scotland
4. ‘A Most Extraordinary and Very Curious Jewel’: the Darnley or Lennox Jewel
Deborah Clarke, former Senior Curator, Holyroodhouse Palace, Royal Collection Trust
5. Scottish Renaissance Jewels in the National Collection: making and makers
Lyndsay McGill, former Curator, Renaissance and Early Modern History, National Museums Scotland
6. Jewels in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Portraits
Kate Anderson, Senior Curator, National Galleries of Scotland
7. Tracing Royal Stewart Jewels in the Archives
Anna Groundwater
8. Analysis of the Fettercairn Jewel and other late sixteenth century Renaissance jewellery items associated with Scotland
Lore Troalen, Analytical Scientist, National Museums Scotland
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Anna Groundwater is the Principal Curator of Renaissance and Early Modern History at the National Museums of Scotland.
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