Necklace
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Venturi is better known as an architect than a jewelry designer. Favoring representational rather than abstract design, he incorporates architectural elements in his jewelry, referencing, for example, a Greek temple or a hot-air balloon. He especially admires Egyptian and Indian jewelry. For this necklace he combined conical elements in gold and semiprecious stones with one gold sphere to create a striking piece that borrows from the past but adopts the reductivist forms of modernism.
Artwork Details
- Title: Necklace
- Artist: Robert Venturi (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1925–2018 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Manufacturer: Cleto Munari (Italian, born Gorizia 1930)
- Date: 1982–1986
- Medium: Gold, turquoise, white onyx, black onyx, lapis lazuli, red agate, green agate
- Classification: Jewelry
- Credit Line: Collection of Kim and Al Eiber
- Rights and Reproduction: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art