History of Jewellery in Ukraine - The Baroque Period

The Baroque Period

Along with goldsmiths' guilds jewellers also worked in private workshops. The masterpieces of Baroque from the studios of I. Ravych, M. Yurjevych, P. Volokh, I. Zavadovskyi include a tsar gate made of solid pieces of silver, altar framework in Kiev Pechersk Lavra and Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev. This era also brought considerable interest in precious stones. Masters of diamond and gem faceting began appearing.

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