A joia: História, simbolismo e emoções.

Abstract

The jewel is an object with hidden symbols and meanings. From it we can express and communicate personality, identity, desires, belonging, religion, feeling of protection and memory of both the creator and the person who assumes it for contemplation, since ancient times. Through the style of jewelry, it is possible to identify times, as with architecture and historical-artistic movements, since the style is understood as a series of aesthetic values that characterize a specific way of decorative elements of a certain time, culture or individually in society. The symbolism of the jewel is important to distinguish and identify the human being, allowing us to make associations with previous experiences related to emotions such as self-image and image, affective memories, particular and cultural specificities, meanings that we attribute to something, among others. Given this scenario, one wonders how to contribute to the set of historiographical studies on jewelry, particularly with regard to symbolic and emotional aspects? The present research has as its general objective to contribute to the set of historiographical studies on jewelry, particularly with regard to symbolic and emotional aspects. To carry out this study, a bibliographic review of an exploratory objective was used to collect data on the history of jewelry, emotional design, fashion, style, in order to have greater familiarity and knowledge of the problem, obtaining support for the study. The contribution of the work is to relate jewelry to emotions, based on the emotional design and historical paths of jewelry.