Toledo Museum of Art exhibits Radiant Ensemble: Jewelry Collection made 1775-1885

Tuesday, 06 January 2009 21:31

 

TOLEDO, OH - The Toledo Museum of Art opened the exhibition Radiant Ensemble: Jewelry from the Nancy & Gilbert Levine Collection, the exhibition showcases one of the most important collections of European jewelry made between 1785 to 1885 and is a promised gift to TMA. The exhibition will be on view in the Glass Pavilion through March 1, 2009.

Mrs. Levine and her late husband collected these exquisite works first for their love of beauty and technical virtuosity, later focusing on the late 18th through the late 19th century and honing in on Georgian and Victorian jewelry. This free exhibition celebrates not the Levines’ connoisseurship and the collecting philosophy that created this dazzling array of parures, demi-parures, brooches, rings, and bracelets. More than 150 ensembles and individual ornaments, some in their original boxes, represent the period’s eclectic styles, notable for ingenious techniques and imaginative designs.

The New York Times raved that “...the new Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art...can reawaken the belief in the power of glass to enchant.”

The Los Angeles Times said, “[The Glass Pavilion] packs a significant architectural punch. Even more successfully than...the 2004 renovation of the Museum of Modern Art.”

Visit The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) at : www.toledomuseum.org/

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