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Ancient Roman Jewelry
The ancient Romans began as an agricultural community living in the central Italian region of Tuscany (near present-day Rome), during the same period as the Etruscans, who were also inhabitants of western Tuscany until around 500 BC. Legend has it that the "Roman Kingdom" was founded in 753 BC by the twin brothers Romulus and Remus, who were descended from the Trojan prince Aeneas of Greco-Roman mythology. -
May 29, 1200
Jewellery of the Middle Ages
The "Middle Ages" was a period in history that dated from the fall of the Western Roman Empire and Classical antiquity in the 5th century AD to the beginning of the Early Modern Period, or "Renaissance" in the 16th century. The broad designation of the Middle Ages is divided into three sub-categories known as the Early Middle Ages or "Dark Ages" (5th—10th century AD); the Middle Ages (11th—13th century); and the Late Middle Ages, also known as the "Medieval Warm Period" or "Medieval Climate Opti -
May 29, 1500
Pre-Columbian Jewelry
For over 22 centuries, the indigenous Pre-Columbian cultures of the Americas lived in the Central American region that is referred to as "Meso-America" (Spanish: Mesoamérica), which extends from from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua; and in the South American, or Andean/Peruvian regions of modern-day Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, as well as norther Argentina and Chile. -
May 29, 1500
Jewelry of China
The practice of jewelry making in China began over 5,000 years ago, during the Yangtze Delta's Middle Neolithic Yang-Shao and Lungshanoid cultures. As Chinese jewelry design developed, elaborate design motifs were adopted which had specific religious significance, and were traditionally used in Buddhist ceremonies. -
Jewelry of Persia
Humans have inhabited the Iranian plateau for thousands of years, and the region has stood at the crossroads of both eastern, and wester civilizations that traveled along the famed Silk Road. The region includes the ancient kingdoms of Parthia, Media and eastern Persia (west of the River Indus), all forming the heartland of "Greater Persia," which encompasses modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan. -
Renaissance Jewellery
The "Renaissance" period, meaning "rebirth" in French (Rinascimento in Italian), actually began with the formation of the Hanseatic League, an alliance of trading cities and guilds, in the mid 12th century (High Middle Ages), but was not fully realized until the enlightened cultural movement of the late 13th, and early 14th centuries. The late Renaissance, also known as the "Early Modern Period" (1500s—1800s), was fueled by a rapid expansion of knowledge which was aided by Johannes Gutenberg's i -
Indus Valley
Humans first began to migrate from Australia to the Indian sub-continent around 60,000 years ago. These early settlers were descendants of the Australoid aborigines, and became the known as the Dravidian, whose reach extended from India to Iran. -
Victorian Jewelry
The more commonly known "Victorian era" was bookended by two other significant periods in British history, the Georgian and Edwardian eras. All three eras were named after the British monarchs who oversaw their periods, and this general timeframe coincided with the broader "Age of Enlightenment," in which reason was advocated as the primary source, and legitimacy for authority and power. As far as fashion, social attitudes, and aesthetic taste is concerned, there is little disagreement that the -
Art Nouveau
The "Art Nouveau" ("new art") movement was one of the first departures from classical art and design, towards a new modernism. This avant-garde movement occurred during what was known in France as the "La Belle Époque" period, or "beautiful era" of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In Germany, the Art Nouveau movement was known as the "Jugendstil," or "youth style" arts and crafts movement, named after "Jugend," a cultural weekly magazine founded by Georg Hirth in 1896. -
Ethnic Tribal Jewelry
The use, and importance of jewelry in primitive tribal, or pagan ritualism, and jewelry's use as a tool for both beautification/decoration, and body modification/deformation dates back thousands of years. Although body modification was routinely practiced in the ancient Pre-Columbian and Indus Valley cultures, this type of beautification is still in practice today in Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, and even within sub-cultures in western societies. -
Art Deco Jewelry
The Art Deco movement was founded by members of the French artists' collective known as the La Société des artistes décorateurs, following the Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels, held in 1925. Some of the movement's founders such as Eugène Samuel Grasset (1845—1917) and Hector Guimard (1867—1942) were also instrumental in establishing the Art Nouveau movement some twenty years earlier. The Art Deco style also borrowed from the other Modernism movements of the time -
Contemporary Jewelry
Modern day jewellery is awlays changing.
Going with fashion trends and revolutionary materials, modern day jewellery is ever changing with the people and their fashions. -
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History Of Jewellery (1)
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Greek Jewellry BC
Many of the artistic skills that the ancient Greeks or Mycenae (1600-1100 BC) possessed were inherited from artisans of the Minoan civilization that preceded the Mycenae by several hundred years, and the Cycladic civilization that inhabited this part of the Aegean Sea since 4000 BC. The Minoans lived on the Mediterranean islands of Crete and Thera (modern-day Santorini), and in Anatolia (Turkey) from 2700 BC to 1600 BC (Early Bronze Age). -
Mesopotamian Jewelry BC
Considered to be one of the cradles of civilization, the Mesopotamian, or "Sumerian" culture flourished from the pre-pottery Neolithic (Hassuan) period of around 8,000 BCE, through the Late Bronze Age of around 1,200 BCE. Mesopotamian civilization relied on the life-giving rainfall of the region's "Fertile Crescent," and by the Ubaid period, around 5,000 BCE, village settlements began to spring up near the mouth of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in present-day southern Iraq. -
Etruscan Jewelry BC
The Etruscans lived in Etruria (western Tuscany, Italy) and were a non Italic people whose culture was based largely on the Greek culture. The Etruscans had a profound influence on the Romans from the 7th century BC to the 5th century BC. They were eventually overcome by the Romans in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. -
Egyptian Jewellery
The first evidence of jewelry making in Ancient Egypt dates back to the 4th millennia BC, to the Predynastic Period of along the Nile River Delta in 3100 BC, and the earlier Badarian culture (named after the El-Badari region near Asyut) which inhabited Upper Egypt between c.4500 BC and c.3200 BC. From 2950 BC to the end of Pharaonic Egypt at the close of the Greco-Roman Period in 395 AD, there were a total of thirty-one dynasties, spanning an incredible 3,345 years!