The founding symbol of Rome on a jewel that carries its own unpredictability and sense of the contemporary. The Capitoline Wolf on the Dalmatian ring: the pairing is unusual and strikingly successful. The presence of the subject and the vivacity of the spots find each other naturally, as though the wolf were at ease on any surface — she is the symbol, and the symbol crosses every era.

The wolf’s long body stretches across the oval bezel — a straight line, watchful, keeping guard over everything around her. At the far end the twins move, alive and lively, and she welcomes them and protects them. The way Rome has always done: inclusive, maternal, open to every culture and every form. The lines of the subject meet the circles of the spots, the round volumes of the ring — different geometries that come together with grace. She preserves this vivacity, and then lets it go. She lets them grow.

Yellow gathers light around the scene — warm and direct, the sun of Rome, that glorious light everyone recognises. The scene comes alive at once, every detail catching the light. Black blends with the black of the base — tone on tone, the wolf standing out with all her presence. Red is the most vibrant colour, full of glow — the founding passion, intense and generous as the legend it carries. With Green nature enters the scene — the surrounding landscape, the long river, the woods, cradle of what was to come. In one ring, a touch of the unexpected and a whole story.