STEFANO PAPI

Il volume e la seconda edizione, aggiornata, del libro dedicato alla grande stagione del gioiello di scena. Stefano Papi analizza e mostra diademi, collane e bracciali resi immortali dalle grandi protagoniste della lirica, da Margherita Carosio a Renata Tebaldi. In particolare, questa seconda edizione presenta alcuni pezzi poco conosciuti appartenuti a Rosetta Pampanini e Maria Callas. L''introduzione al volume, qui presentato in lingua inglese, e curata da Pier Luigi Pizzi.

For many centuries precious jewels were only collected by kings and queens, emperors, popes and maharajahs. But in the last 100 years or so, movie goddesses, opera singers, industrialists, real-estate investors and rock stars have joined those with the means to deck themselves in glittering bracelets, necklaces and earrings. Posthumous auctions have revealed the grand jewelry collections of recent times. The famous sale of 1987 uncovered the full extent of the dazzling designs which belonged to the Duchess of Windsor. By the same token, as this book so handsomely shows, the collections of ...