In Venice an exhposition with 270 vintage Indian jewels from the Al Thani collection ♦︎
Jewelery in a jewel city: in Venice comes the Al Thani collection. Exposed first in London and then in Paris, for the first time he is in Italy. It is a collection of ancient Indian or vintage jewels. Starting from 1500 up to the last century: there are 270 outstanding pieces that will be visible at Palazzo Ducale. To set this outstanding collection was Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani, a member of the royal Qatar family: he fell in love with years of Indian goldsmith tradition, especially that of the Moghul period and has collected these pieces which are a sum of history of the high Indian jewelery, from Genghis Khan and Tamerlan to the maharaja in the colonial period. They are ornamental jewels, but also symbolic: they were used to mark the rank, role and even mood of the wearer, man or woman. In addition to being indispensable accessories for some occasions, such as ceremonies.
The exhibition is curated by Amin Jaffer, conservative chief of the Al Thani collection and Gian Carlo Calza, a Far East art scholar, with Gabriella Belli’s scientific management. The exhibition begins on 9 September 2017 and continues until 7 January 2018. Federico Graglia
The Al Thani collection
Venice, Palazzo Ducale
September 9, 2017 – January 7, 2018
Hours: 8.30-19
Tickets
Full 20 euros; Reduced by 13 euros
