Fashion blossomed during the Renaissance with elaborate, fantastical costumes and luxurious jewelry. Today, we take a look at one type of wearable Renaissance artwork; the portrait pendant. What is a pendant? How was the Renaissance concept of fashion different from our own? And who made these luxurious objects? 
 
Resources
<a href='https://www.lesenluminures.com/artworks/categories/1/9698-pendant-with-virgin-mary-as-queen-of-heaven-italy-c.-1550-1560/'>Pendant with Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven</a>
<a href=''>Metropolitan Museum of Art Commesso Pendant </a>

Fashion blossomed during the Renaissance with elaborate, fantastical costumes and luxurious jewelry. Today, we take a look at one type of wearable Renaissance artwork; the portrait pendant. What is a pendant? How was the Renaissance concept of fashion different from our own? And who made these luxurious objects? Resources Pendant with Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven Metropolitan Museum of Art Commesso Pendant

Fashion blossomed during the Renaissance with elaborate, fantastical costumes and luxurious jewelry. Today, we take a look at one type of wearable Renaissance artwork; the portrait pendant. What is a pendant? How was the Renaissance concept of fashion different from our own? And who made these luxurious objects?&nbsp;
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Resources
<a href="https://www.lesenluminures.com/artworks/categories/1/9698-pendant-with-virgin-mary-as-queen-of-heaven-italy-c.-1550-1560/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pendant with Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven</a>
<a href="" rel="noopener noreferrer">Metropolitan Museum of Art Commesso Pendant&nbsp;</a>

Renaissance Pendants, Painting, and Fashion

Les Enluminures podcasts transform the past into the present with untold stories, research, science, and histories of Medieval and Renaissance artworks through illuminating lectures, gallery talks, in-house research, and interviews with collectors and scholars.

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