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Beauty often shines as if imprisoned in the transparencies and facets of glass and stone, of gems and crystals. From the gems of great dynasties to fragile glass sculptures, from striking agates to masterpieces of Florentine commesso.
Glass, Stones, and Crystals
A bust in polychrome marble at Santa Maria Maggiore (Rome) depicts the Congolese ambassador to the Holy See from the turn of the 1600s, António Manuel Ne Vunda.
The life and works of painter and engraver Wenzel Hablik, the visionary Bohemian artist, a very original protagonist of the work of the Vienna Secession.
The collection of jewelry by René Lalique assembled by his friend and patron Calouste Gulbenkian.
Five Palermitan altar frontals of marble inlay, now housed in two different churches, are ideally reunited in these pages.
The glittering jewelry collection of the Royal House of Braganza, preserved at Lisbon’s Palácio Nacional da Ajuda.
Roger Caillois’s collection of stones and Giovanni Pratesi’s collection of Arno river rocks and pebbles.
The Olnick Spanu collection of glasswork created in Murano by the architect Carlo Scarpa.
The entirely European phenomenon of the Grand Tour, illustrated with a collection of sulfur-based cameos known as “zolfi.”
Magnificent tables of marble and inlaid stones made in Rome in the second half of the sixteenth century.
