




A ring that is almost hypnotic, just as the face of Medusa in this intaglio. A composition steady, symmetrical, suspended — one that on this model becomes an object of extraordinary contemporaneity.
The gaze fixed straight ahead, the features carved with exceptional precision, the relief unfolding horizontally and taking all the room it needs. The black and white of the Dalmatian pattern with its brilliant finish accompanies this symmetry: in continuity, always together.
On this model, with the solidity of bronze and the lightness of the decoration, Medusa crosses time and arrives right here, worn on the finger. On the Dalmatian that perfect equilibrium is enriched with a new reading, and each colour carries one of the many facets her myth holds — those of one of the most enduring and layered figures the history of art has handed down to us.
The dancing forms of the ground accompany Medusa: black and white converse with the curls of her hair, adding a graphic rhythm to the image. The irregular scattered spots and her symmetry become intriguing, and when you look at her long enough everything seems to move with her. It is an intaglio that draws you in, the graphic elements make it magnetic.
The face in full light: white and its candour tell the emotions, expressing them outwards. Black instead carries them within. With Pale Blue the view opens wide, as if Medusa's eyes lost their borders, and everything becomes open. Pink lights up sweetness. White, pink and black — three tones modern, refined, unusual; each choice tells its own story, leaving to the wearer the final word.
Important Notes
The jewels' colors in the photo may look different from the original one. This depends from the resolution. Each object is handmade and has unique characteristics.
The so-called “Rondanini Medusa”. Marble, Roman copy of a 5th-century BC Greek original by Phidias, which was set on the shield of Athena Parthenos. The Munich Glyptothek’s Medusa Rondanini is possibly a 5th-century BC work, and the oldest-known ”beautiful gorgoneion” sculpture. The design may have been copied from a gilded bronze aegis that once hung in the Acropolis, where it would have been meant to ward off evil and bad luck. A revision of the grotesque, disk-shaped death masks of older gorgoneia, the Medusa Rondanini appears to borrow the idealized likeness of Athena of Velletri, wreathed in decorative snakes and delicate owl wings—Chthonic dread and death mixed with Olympian beauty and cunning. While on display in the Palazzo Rondanini in Rome, it was noticed and first brought to the attention of Northern European art connoisseurs in the 1780s by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who wrote, “I would say something about it if everything one could say about such a work were not a waste of breath.” Located in the Glyptotheum of Munich
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