Pedro Nunes
Contemporary Jewellery
This collection was done for the Pedro Nunes [1502-1578] Exhibition: novas terras, novos mares e o que mays he: novo ceo e novas estrellas, held at the Portuguese National Library. The collection drew inspiration from geometrical drawings published in:
- the Portuguese edition of the The Treaty of the Sphere by João Sacrobosco [13th century], published in Lisbon by Germão Galhardo [1537];
- a leaf from Opera, printed in Basel in Henricpetrina printing-works [1566];
- a leaf from De Crepusculis, printed in Lisbon by the printer Luís Rodrigues [1542].
Design Teresa Milheiro and Inês Correia
© Archeofactu. Handmade.