Vicenzaoro Highlights, January 2023: The Beauty of Ancient Egypt

The Egyptian Museum is certainly one of Turin’s great attractions, the second most important exhibition in the world after Cairo. Until 7th May 2023, the Jewellery Museum in Vicenza will also be able to boast a smidgeon of the fascination for this ancient civilization with an exhibition that sees a first-time selection of precious artefacts on display inside the Palladian Basilica, a perfect context since the capital of the Veneto region is the heart of an important goldsmith district. “Jewels and Amulets. Beauty in Ancient Egypt” is, in fact, an exhibition of some eighty artefacts bearing witness to the relationship that the people who flourished along the banks of the Nile had with body decoration. «The Jewellery Museum, which Italian Exhibition Group manages together with the Municipality of Vicenza, was set up to enrich and expand the city’s cultural and artistic offer and this project fits exactly into this perspective,» says Michela Amenduni, the Museum’s management director and IEG’s Jewellery & Fashion marketing manager. «Together with Vicenzaoro, it represents a tribute to the area’s goldsmith excellence and is a reference point for the entire sector. Thanks to educational and workshop proposals, it aims to get the new generations increasingly HAPPY HOUR Drinks and Music Si rinnova di edizione in edizione l'aperitivo di Vicenzaoro, sponsorizzato dal marchio di accessori di lusso per la gioielleria Wolf 1834. Ormai appuntamento immancabile per trascorrere un fine giornata all'insegna di eccellenti etichette di vino italiano, l'happy hour si terrà come di consueto fino a lunedì 23 gennaio, dalle 17.30 alle 20, sul Piazzale Ovest. The Vicenzaoro aperitif is renewed from edition to edition, sponsored by the brand of luxury accessories for jewelry, Wolf 1834. Now an unmissable appointment to spend an end of the day, in the name of excellent Italian wine labels, the happy hour will be held as usual until Monday 23 January, from 5.30pm to 8pm, at the West Entrance. le varie classi dimensionali in due macro aree: le aziende più piccole ripongono tutto nella risoluzione del conflitto russo-ucraino, mentre le più grandi indicano come prima opportunità di crescita, le operazioni di acquisizione e fusione. Infine, venendo alle criticità emerse, la percentuale più alta degli intervistati è unanime nel riconoscere la difficoltà di reperimento della maDALLA PRIMA Stefania Trenti, Head of Industry Research at Intesa Sanpaolo’s Studies and Research Department, and Augusto Ungarelli, President of Vendorafa Lombardi and former President of Club degli Orafi Italia. involved in the fascinating world of the goldsmith’s art.» The exhibition, inaugurated on 23rd December last, received the following comment from the Director of the Egyptian Museum, Christian Greco: «The event, which is the result of a synergic collaboration between us and the Jewellery Museum, took its first steps in our Turin warehouses. It is with great pleasure that we present these treasures to the Vicenza public, accompanied by a display of several scenes from wall paintings and papyri that depict them in their context of use.» Curator Paolo Marini then went into further detail: «The selected ornaments and amulets conceal, in their minuteness, unimaginable value. They are not only the representation of a status symbol or the manifestation of Egyptian technical expertise, they also express the feelings, fears and hopes of an ancient people through the choice of forms and materials with strong symbolic and performative meaning.»