Brilliance: Jewelry Art and Fashion

A stunning visual journey through four millennia of jewelry as told through the exemplary collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. From ancient Egyptian broad collars to contemporary studio pieces, jewelry has been used as a powerful communication tool across millennia―and around the world. The renowned collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, showcases global stories of human ingenuity through an incredible array of jewelry designs, materials and techniques. Each object boasts a unique history of its own; when considered side by side, however, they speak to one another, these cross-cultural and multigenerational conversations inviting the reader to consider new insights and fresh perspectives on the art form.Brilliance explores jewelry as a messenger, a decorative art and an object of adornment over the course of four thousand years. This catalog features more than 100 works in the MFA's collection, exploring their makers, their uses and their meanings in three curatorial