How jewellery has been worn and used throughout history
What do we mean by jewellery? Why do we wear it? Different societies across time and across the world have their own interpretations. This lecture reveals how jewellery has been worn and used throughout history, as illustrated in ancient burial ornaments by anonymous masters to the work of esteemed craftspeople and ‘big names’ of the modern world.
How to book this event:
Booing is not required. Visitors/guests are welcome for a small charge of £8 payable on the door.
THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER
Miss Judy Rudoe
Since 1974 curator at the BM, specialising in jewellery, and in 19th-20th century decorative arts. Author of Cartier 1900-1939 (BM 1997) and organiser of the Cartier exhibition at the BM, co-author of the Catalogue of the Hull Grundy Gift of Jewellery (BM 1984), contributor to the Catalogue of Micromosaics in the Gilbert Collection (2000). Her latest book, Jewellery in the Age of Victoria, co-authored with Charlotte Gere, was published in 2010 and won the 2011 William Berger Prize for British Art History. She is a Freeman of the Goldsmiths' Company and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
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