{"id":352,"date":"2023-10-19T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T11:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/?p=352"},"modified":"2025-06-13T16:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T14:43:05","slug":"the-jewels-in-the-paintings-of-the-uffizi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/the-jewels-in-the-paintings-of-the-uffizi\/","title":{"rendered":"The jewels in the paintings of the Uffizi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An <strong>interesting book for jewellery enthusiasts<\/strong> that winks at painting lovers has recently been published by our friend and colleague <strong>Silvia Malaguzzi.<\/strong> In &#8220;<em>Diamanti rubini e smeraldi, il linguaggio dei gioielli nei dipinti degli Uffizi<\/em>&#8221; (<em>Diamonds, rubies and emeralds, the language of jewels in the paintings of the Uffizi<\/em>) she transformed into a method the idea that many very famous paintings could reveal something new if one analyzes its precious details with the jeweler&#8217;s lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-image-798\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-diamanti-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-diamanti-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-diamanti-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Silvia Malaguzzi with his book &#8220;Diamanti rubini e smeraldi, il linguaggio dei gioielli nei dipinti degli Uffizi&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The book is the result of many years of study of the <strong>gems and jewels&nbsp;adorning&nbsp;the paintings&#8217; figures<\/strong> on display at the Uffizi and revealing many&nbsp;secrets and curiosities about the humanistic symbolism and iconography of the Gothic-Renaissance era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result is a volume of <strong>296 pages beautifully illustrated <\/strong>with about 250 images. Of the approximately <strong>100 paintings analyzed<\/strong>, 15 paintings constitute the final section of the book which dedicates special attention to each, including Botticelli&#8217;s Spring. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-image-799\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2-diamanti-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2-diamanti-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2-diamanti-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Silvia Malaguzzi with her book &#8220;Diamanti rubini e smeraldi, il linguaggio dei gioielli nei dipinti degli Uffizi&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting book for jewellery enthusiasts that winks at painting lovers has recently been published by our friend and colleague Silvia Malaguzzi. In &#8220;Diamanti rubini e smeraldi, il linguaggio dei gioielli nei dipinti degli Uffizi&#8221; (Diamonds, rubies and emeralds, the language of jewels in the paintings of the Uffizi) she transformed into a method the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/the-jewels-in-the-paintings-of-the-uffizi\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The jewels in the paintings of the Uffizi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-extra-ordinary-exclusive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}