The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco delight in to introduce The Art of Bulgari: La Dolce Vita & Beyond 1950 – 1990, an exhibition of about 150 items created by the popular Italian jeweler over four decades. This special event will highlight jewelry that specified a critical period in Italian layout, and also will include many items from the individual collection of Elizabeth Taylor.
Bulgari especially started to produce its own hallmark in precious jewelry in the 1960s by welcoming boldly-colored combinations of gemstones, use of hefty gold, and also kinds stemmed from Greco-Roman classicism, the Italian Renaissance, as well as the 19th-century Roman college of goldsmiths. The firm helped to develop a look that would become known as the “Italian college” of precious jewelry style. Pieces in the exhibit present the jeweler’s eclectic creativity and also creation during this duration.
Functions in the exhibition likewise consist of those from the 1970s as well as 80s, an especially ingenious duration for the jewelry expert as well as one affected by Pop Art as well as other contemporary fads. “The hard-edged designs of the 1970s included a whole range based on the Stars-and-Stripes theme, while in the 1980s the Parentesi collection had a smoother, modular, nearly architectural visibility; both demonstrate how the jeweler can lead in brand-new instructions with a solid feeling of style,” stated Martin Chapman, manager in charge of European Decorative Arts as well as Sculpture at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Bulgari’s successful cultivation of prominent customers and film celebrities like Sophia Loren, Ingrid Bergman, and also perhaps most especially, Elizabeth Taylor, has long been a key facet of the jeweler’s credibility. To help explore the cultural context in which these things were made, the event will certainly consist of innovative uses of sketches, photographs, and various other archival products that assist to reveal an interesting crossway of celeb, style, and also great craftsmanship.
The Art of Bulgari: La Dolce Vita & Beyond, 1950 – 1990 proceeds the Fine Arts Museums’ solid performance history of events highlighting the work of definitive numbers and also motions worldwide of style and style including: Cartier in America, Balenciaga and also Spain, Yves Saint Laurent and The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, among others.
Checking out
de Young Museum
Golden Gate Park
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118
deyoungmuseum.org
415-750-3600
Gallery Hours
Tuesday– Sunday, 9:30 am– 5:15 pm
Friday (March 29– November 29, 2013) 9:30 am– 8:45 pm
Closed Mondays
Admission
Admission: $20 grownups; $17 elders; $16 university student with ID; $10 young people 6– 17. (These prices consist of basic admission.) Members and also youngsters 5 as well as under are cost-free. General admission is cost-free the very first Tuesday of every month.
Tickets can be bought on website and on the de Young’s web site: deyoungmuseum.org. Tickets purchased online include a $1 handling charge.Group ticket appointments offered by emailing groupsales@famsf.org
