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 Dogale Jewelry, Goldsmith in Venice

Sospiri Bridge area, behind the Basilica of San Marco,

canonica bridge, castello N° 4318 –      Map where we are
Telephone 00390415287549 –

Mobile & WhatsApp / Telegram 0039 3299 143598

Precious handmade jewelry artisanal production

Since 1969 Dogale Jewelry is a family-run craft business The owner is Mr. Giorgio Berto Egildo together with his sons Alessandro and Ursula

Giorgio Berto works with the gold since 1950, takes its place with a passion to learn the art of gold in the laboratories of the city who created jewelry for important account of the best shops in Venice. [separator top_space=”0px” bottom_space=”20px”]

Thanks to ‘instinct a passion for drawing and fancy jewelry he learned early the art of settings engraving of jewelry, essential for the creation of entirely blackamoor and other beautiful jewels.

[/one_half] In the late 60 here is the opening of the ‘Gold Jewelry Dogale precious shop near the famous Bridge of Sighs Ruga Saint Apollonia 4318, just off the deck to boot camp canonical Saints Filippo & Giacomo, even the sons since 1980 placed in the undertaking to continue with the tradition of handmade Venetian jewelry. It ‘can get from Piazzale Roma with the ACTV public transport service route in about 22 minutes.The private taxi service can take you close to our shop in the side channel of the former rectory Jesurum.

History and curiosities about our jewels:

Typical Venetian jewels, the Moretti (blackamoors)… but if you have a taste for mystery also talismans. The Moor-shaped brooches that are produced and sold in our shop are jewels of the Venetian goldsmith tradition, in fact they were born from the original synthesis, carried out in Venice, of various cultural suggestions. The origins of the Moretti family date back to very distant times, when Saracen pirates infested the coasts of Dalmatia. In the Hellenistic age, gold and black and white enamel earrings were produced in Fiume, Istria, acting as a powerful talisman. During the centuries of great fear of the Ottoman Turks, the terrible law of the strongest was in force, the populations of the coast always brought the African Americans and donated them to the churches as a sign of thanks for having escaped the danger. From here the amulet came to Venice, not to exorcise attacks from the sea, but to represent the Turkish pirate defeated by Venice and her Doges, celebrated as a triumph and reinterpreted as a rich jewel in gold and precious stones. One of the most famous references to the Moors is that of Othello, Shakespeare’s Moor of Venice. The protagonist is indeed a Moro, a general in the Venetian army. In Venice the Moors are almost everywhere, even the Campo dei Mori exists. Coats of arms of families with the surname Moro or with depictions of the faces of “Moors” are common in Venice. The clock tower in Piazza San Marco for example has 2 Moors who strike the hours (even if in reality the two characters are two shepherds probably later called Moors with the oxidation of the bronze they are made of) in the early sixteenth century in Venice various paintings have been painted in which Islamic figures appear such as those of Vittore Carpaccio, it is curious to discover how Moresco, Moreschi, Morone, Moro, Moretto, Moretti, Morello, Moroni Dal Moro and so on from nicknames these become real surnames, in Trento there is a town called Mori! Returning to the jewels with the Moors, they are objects that speak of our city, in our century the imagination of the Venetians has given rise to infinite variations on the theme: bust and turban have become a scenic space where the best techniques learned from the local goldsmith are represented with fretwork, engravings, filigrees, and also with beautiful fired enamels. The craftsman uses the power of the heat of the oven and an ancient technique to color the jewels in the most varied shades, among the most beautiful colours, undoubtedly red, green or blue. The heads are almost always made of ebony wood. The Morettis have also been appreciated by people of international stature such as Grace Kelly, Elena of Spain, Ernest Hemingway, Elton John, Diana Vreeland, in recent times the style icon Iris Apfel who loved models rich in pearls wore them. André Leon Talley, Anna Wintour’s right-hand man, who died in 2022, the only black fashion journalist and artistic director of Vogue, often wore an imposing dark-haired bust brooch at fashion shows. The late financier Robert Zellinger de Balkany was a passionate “Fan” of ours and every time he arrived with his wonderful Yacht Marala he tastefully chose his jewels: Moretti and “Cavalli”, because he was also a Polo champion! The actress Julia Jäger instead wears one of our Mori sets in the 2020 German TV series Inspector Brunetti. and currently? Moretti jewels, in addition to being talismans, are messengers of love and continue to be a coveted object for elite collectors. Simple tourists, incognito stylists, or loyal Venetians regularly visit our Atelier; many are demanding and capricious customers; even if the city is no longer that of the legendary 50s/70s, princes and dukes, marquises and countesses of the European aristocracy still pass through the shop to fulfill a secret whim or give a stylish gift.

In our shop in Venice – a few steps to the Duomo behind the Basilica of to the Hotel Danieli – you will have a large choice of many models of Venetian blackamoors (earrings, broochs, pendants and rings), you will have the possibility to look at the goldsmith during his work, who will explain t you how the craftsmanship’s realisation of the blackamoors is carried out.
At the Dogale jewellery is possible to order a jewel with the gems and the colours you prefer, or transform rings and other objects you have and also repair your blackamoor. You can recive the new collection just sending us an e-mail at info@webjewels.it, we will be pleased to send you also some pictures

The Skulls!

The jewels with skulls that we produce in our Atelier are absolutely exclusive models; almost all of them are inspired by the memento mori theme. Those who wear these jewels do not do so for a macabre taste, but to remember the transience of life and to savor every moment of their existence. They are jewels of great communicative power that represent a warning to reflect on the transience of fortune and the brevity of one’s essence and also on the vanity of human ambitions.
They are an indication to live your life well and having the ability to do so, to be generous, not only with yourself but also towards others, seizing every moment; it is not a trivial matter, every left is lost, but something much more conscious and not superficial. Advice to the rich and very rich: try not to live to become the richest in the cemetery! Among our jewels with skulls, we also include the “Joyas Calaveras” which are of Mexican tradition where the cult of the dead is a deeply felt ancient anniversary, the “Dias de los muertos” festival is famous. These Mexican skulls, especially the imaginative rings, are an explosion of colors, studded with precious stones and decorated with flowers and crosses, signifying joy of life. The “Calaveras” also remind us to celebrate our life and our mortality, to look to the past but also to the future, while remaining in the present with wisdom! Wearing Calaveras dia de los muertos jewelry and Memento Mori they remind us to live every moment to the fullest and have love for life. We can say without a doubt that these precious objects express the cultural and aesthetic universality of a theme that is not necessarily funereal but rather an evergreen ironic fashion, which never goes out of fashion, for the man who cannot escape death… The skull seems tell you: don’t run, but hurry…”tempus fugit” and therefore we can assert not only memento mori but also memento vive! Even if you reverse the elements, in the end the meaning does not change. In 1989, one of our customers asked to engrave the following epitaph on a mighty gold skull ring: Who I was, you are, who I am, you will be. If you would like a personalized jewel of this kind, contact us by email at info@webjewels. it or whatsapp on the telephone number 0039 3299 143598 – landline telephone 041 5287549 Instagram and TikTok: @dogalejewellery                    They make the last dress without pockets (Gino Bartali)

 

 

Trade data: established in Venice, sestiere of castello, 4318 Ruga S. Apollonia Canonica Bridge
e-mail info@webjewels.it
Partita Iva 00275430270
trademark VE106
Registration with the Chamber of Commerce No. 98170th rec No. 11808th
We are a physical store and shop with the production plant established in Venice we promote through the website in a virtual exhibition, we can personally guarantee our products!
Store hours (9.30/12.30 – 15.30/19.30) for any further information please call +0039 041 5287549 closing day Sunday, in summer the store also closes on Saturday afternoon.

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The Moors

The name and shape derive from the term mori, which at the time indicated Muslims or, by extension, Saracen pirates. The origins of these jewels go back to the time when the Saracens raided the Dalmatian coast.

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The  Skulls…Vanitas and more..

There are various and multiform interpretations that can be given to these objects: dark fetishes, passion for the dark, the decadent or the paranormal, lucky charms, superstitious and propitiatory objects, taste for mystery, fashion or simple collecting. The skull has always been a very assiduous image in the art world, in 600 memento mori in Belgium and Holland it was a very fashionable pictorial trend. Skulls as symbolic elements, allusive to the theme of the transience of life, and as a religious philosophical theme of the ineluctability of death, the inconsistency of earthly goods, the ephemeral, and the futility of human pleasures; the skull is the cultural and aesthetic universality of a theme not necessarily funereal but evergreen, which does not go out of fashion like a Doors record. In Christian culture, for example, the skull is a symbol of eternity, repentance; skulls for the man or woman who cannot escape death but through them can exorcise it.
Here then are our collections, with simple or elaborate skulls, with enamels and diamonds, in gold or silver. Ancient symbols, absolutely up-to-date..

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Engravings!

Glyptic from the Greek glyptos, “engraved” is a very ancient art by which hard stones and gems or other suitable materials such as shells for cameos are engraved. This technique makes it possible to make seals, carvings or even small objects such as heads, skulls, flowers and more. In our laboratory we engrave stones such as carnelian, jasper, pencils, onyx to make seal rings with noble coat of arms or mythological images; if you have your own design to reproduce we can make your personal jewel.

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