Art Institute of Chicago
Ring
Probably Italian
- Date
- c. 1525–c. 1575
- Medium
- Gold, tourmaline, and traces of enamel
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Applied Arts of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Bold in color, this ring is in keeping with mid- to late sixteenth-century Italian Renaissance fashion. Its large step-cut pink tourmaline is mounted on a cast gold setting, ornamented with a series of scrolls colored with touches of blue, green, and white enameling. In the period, many stones, like tourmaline, were believed to hold healing properties, and therefore thought beneficial as well as fashionable to wear.
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- Object type
- AAT300209261
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