Friday 27 January 2012 Look of Love opens for Valentine's Day
The Look of Love: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection will be on show in the Arrington Gallery, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, February 7 - June 10, 2012
This stunning exhibition explores the little-known subject of “lover’s eyes,” hand-painted miniatures of single human eyes set in jewelry and given as tokens of affection or remembrance. In 1785, when the Prince of Wales secretly proposed to Mrs. Maria Fitzherbert with a miniature of his own eye, he inspired an aristocratic fad for exchanging eye portraits mounted in a wide variety of settings including brooches, rings, lockets, and toothpick cases.
With 96 examples, the collection of Dr. and Mrs. David A. Skier of Birmingham is the largest in the world. This exhibition offers an unprecedented look at these unusual and intriguing works of art.
The Look of Love
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