HIGH JEWELRY - Damiani: Eight Precious Masterpieces

The house of Valenza has selected eight painting masterpieces, from the Florentine Renaissance to abstraction, and transposed them into as many unique high jewelry creations, with precious stones serving as brush strokes. Impetuosa borrows its swell from Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa : over 700 blue sapphires and Paraíba tourmalines form a gradient reminiscent of foam, and beneath the crest, a 3-carat trilliant-cut diamond represents Mount Fuji. En-Plein-Air captures Monet's Water Lilies around a Colombian Muzo emerald (10.23 carats), a metaphor for the depth of water, surrounded by over 1100 blue, green, purple, and yellow sapphires. Inspired by Botticelli's Spring , Floréa brings to life a meadow of more than 1000 emeralds in two shades, dotted with white gold daisies and diamonds. /public-objects/b621c99d-86be-47ec-b758-abda60e2a620-8949f5aa-6da1-44c3-b6f8-a4dc1b660317-GEM-T%20-%20Substack_Visuel%202.webp Image sélectionnée In other pieces, the stone also becomes emotion. Malìa sculpts the serpents of Caravaggio's Medusa in rose gold: the alexandrites, which shift from green to red depending on the light, re-enact the painter's chiaroscuro, while a Burmese pigeon's blood ruby of more than six carats captures the gaze of the Gorgon. More conceptual, Pentagramma seizes Kandinsky's Gray Form to align 13 colored diamonds like notes on a stave, echoing the painter's cherished idea that painting can become music. The golden mosaic of Klimt's Kiss is reborn in Estasi, around a spinel of over seven carats, and Van Gogh's Sunflowers ignite Radiosa with a yellow-brown diamond of more than 20 carats. From the Uffizi in Florence to the Belvedere in Vienna, the halls of the world's greatest museums now fit into a jewelry box where the brushstroke becomes eternal, in gems.