LUCREZIA BLU RING

Despite her innocence, the image of Lucrezia Borgia with her poison ring used to assassin her husbands, lives on. Victim of the political plans of her ruthless father Alessandro Borgia who eventually became also a controversial Pope she struggled all her life to find and maintain a suitable husband. The ring features South Sea Pearl that can be opened revealing a poison cup with a pink gold skull trembling on a spring. In the gallery we can see a representation of this gracious Renaissance dame, in a moment of vanity. The round shape of this precious cocktail ring is embellished by triangular motives, typical decorations of the middle age and Renaissance palaces. We can find those patterns in the Venetian architecture and between the arches of the Ferrara Palaces where Lucrezia, in the second half of her troubled life, finally was proclaimed innocent and finally recognised with the appellative of the “Good Duchess”. On the ring shanks the fourth-lobe patterns are embellished by the usage of diamond and the ring band represented by twisted motive of gold with lines of micro set diamonds: a representation of the tortiles columns that decorated the courtyard of the most refined palaces of Italy.