Traditional and Profound Culture Bring about Italy Jewelry

The historic civilization and generation-to-generation passed down culture is the precious biography of Italian. In both the prosperous renaissance periods and modern time that pursue individuality and personality, the ancient buildings in Rome has always being affected the jeweler’s creation and designers; gold and fancy gems is still the materials that the artisans good at, jewelry setting crafts that might be lost after hundreds of years still spread perfectly in many long-managed family jewels.What the most obvious characteristics of Italian jewelry? Experts would say that Italian jewelry is the carrier of traditional art, in other words, tradition is the most obvious characteristic of Italy Jewelry. There is opinion that tradition is the fetter that would restrain the bold and passionate development of Italy jewelry, but Italian will never agree with it. Exists in the jewelry area, there is still balance of commercial and art value, freedom individuality and exquisite crafts, heritage of classic and catering to modern etc..The jewelry culture of Italy had gained its emerging since the roman civilization. The first and second AD century is the most prosperous periods of ancient Roman Empire. Achievement of the time on military, mathematics, astronomy were outstanding, so were areas such as culture, sculpture, painting, designing etc.. Following these areas closely is jewelry culture which extends on gold and silver crafts at the same time. Noble female of the time would wear delicate earrings, necklace and bracelets to show their elegance and charm, jewelry then functioned as both decoration and stage property to highlight financial resources and power, which gradually penetrated the daily life as well. Ring was taken as the token of engagement started from the 13th and 14th century when European renaissance begun in industrial and commercial cities such as Florence, Genoa, Venice, in addition, the booming humanism period was a producing and consuming periods – massive construction projects of church and places, worship for paintings, sculpture and books etc., which stirred the demand of middle class for cultural and art products to live a gorgeous and luxurious life. The lack of stick hierarchy concepts, English principles made the Italians who were pragmatic and out of restrain will never lack of inspiration for designing and crating, which make them the leader in the relative industries.Italians kept it in mind what tradition and culture means for them, hence they tried their best to keep every trace of their cultural heritage. Even in today, most cities and villages are still what they were in the ancient time, ancient buildings in the country can be seen everywhere, and the government and ordinary people would love to spend countless funds and human labor to maintain these culture heritage. The fashion designer Valentino has ever provided funds supports to repair the most renowned ruins of ancient Colosseum, it can be say that people who are ardent of maintaining and passing down the Italian art is countless, it is their endeavor that make it possible that the young generation of Italy have the chance to experience and study the art treasure left by the ancestors to spark the endless source of inspiration for artisans and designers.By nineteenth century, as the representative of Etruscan style which pushed the jewelry into a whole new level then, Fortuna Pio Castellani made complicated and delicate jewelry for the Italian nobility whose favor for the style can be described as addiction in some sense. By creation and development of the generation, jewelry crafts of Italian can be thought having entered the prefect state, which made crafters in other area miles away.By influence from other civilizations of ancient Egyptian, ancient Greek, the jewelry designing style finally formed into the Italian style we can get touch with today after combination and absorbing of the essence of the many other cultures. Expect gold, silver which is trendily designed and exquisitely made and fancy gems and semi-gems full of bold and wild sense and so on together combine the flamboyantly one that contains the past and nowadays. Surely by relaying on the rich art and traditional art solely cannot contribute to nowadays’ Italian design. It is the favor and persistence for their tradition, the strict attitudes towards life and pursuit for the extreme of art that indeed contribute the Italian style.The profound cultural heritage does not only breed lots of professional designers, but also pay foundation to the birth of various artisans. In areas such as movie, music, painting, sculpture etc., Italy can be a country that full of masters. Different categories of arts inspire as well as promote mutually to form the eternal and virtuous cycle.