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Shoes: centuries of Pleasure and Pain
The V&A Museum in London will show this year exciting exhibitions that we from Lopez-Linares Vintage Jewelry would love to recommend if you happen (...)
D” for “Damascene”- Crafwork from Toledo
Toledo is a Spanish city known by the famous damascene craftwork. Paying a visit to Toledo will show you places where still today you’ll find the most (...)
Filippo Lippi and his Madonna pearl brooch
Let me show you today a jewel inspired in one of the Filippo Lippi’s most emblematic paintings. A small pearl brooch that the Madonna wears in Madonna (...)
Jane Goodall, a life devoted to primates protection
Focusing your life in a passion is not easy and just a few make it a success, like the British Jane Goodall (London 1934) did. She was one of the most (...)
With “E” for “Estras” (Strass or Rhinestone)
A flint glass with a high lead content, used to imitate gemstones A flint glass used to imitate gemstones and create therefore fantasy jewelry. The name (...)
“Janus a principio ad finem”
A Still Life is the modern name for the “dead nature” art: a painting or a picture that represents animals, flowers and other objects that may come (...)
Chaplin’s vintage jewelry
It’s said Paulette Goddard’s passion with jewelry started in the early 30’s, right after she got secretly married with Charles Chaplin. Then it became (...)
Leila Amat and her Emergent Bamboo
With Leila Amat I’m starting a new project. After a post I read in her blog –which I follow very often- I decided I should collect emerging photos (...)
With “C” for “Colgante” (Pendant)
The definition within the jewelry industry is “a hanging ornament on a necklace” We can differentiate two types of pendants: Loose pendants: Those (...)
Simonetta Vespucci, muse of the Renaissance
Many of you don’t probably know the name of the muse who inspired this painting. However, the Sandro Botticelli’s Venus is one of the first images (...)