FMJ 421
History of Metal and Jewellery Design
2
Course Description
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
1. Understand the historical foundations of their practice;
2. Understand how to draw inspiration from such knowledge while practicing;
3. Explore how practice relates to history; and
4. Recognise an atelier style or those of some masters.
Course Outline
The course is a general survey of the history and practice of metals in relation to fashion and the
locus of metals and pieces of jewellery. The examples of such items in the fashion ensemble of
the pharaohs and other ancient civilizations of the world form the necessary grounds of a survey
into subsequent regimes of jewellery design and use up to contemporary times. Strategic to the
course is a study of masters and trends in this sphere.