Gibraltar Garrison Library

The Gibraltar Garrison Library extends its most heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Tito Benady.

An eminent historian, writer and champion of our Gibraltar story. May he rest in peace.

We thought our followers might enjoy these pen and ink sketches by William Mann depicting various scenes around Gibraltar, c. 1838.

Clare Phillips (MA Royal College of Art) has been a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum since 1989. As a jewellery historian, she is a key part of the small team dedicated to the V&A’s jewellery collection. She has written extensively on jewellery: from Jewels & Jewellery, the definitive account of the V&A’s collection, and Jewelry - from Antiquity to the Present, Thames & Hudson’s accessible introductory text, to definitive works on the jewellery of Tiffany for Yale University Press and on Chaumet's tiaras for Thames & Hudson. In 2006 she curated the exhibition Bejewelled by Tiffany at Somerset House. In addition to her work with the V&A's permanent collection, she has been responsible for jewellery content within major V&A exhibitions, including - amongst many others - Art Nouveau: 1890-1914 and Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up. ��Lecture – Jewellery in Portraits. The Glittering Canvas 1750 to 1850�Jewellery has always been one of the most personal of art forms, and portraits through the ages have shown the importance of jewels to the people who choose to be painted wearing them. Jewellery's intimate nature prompts a multiplicity of references, meanings and messages, while its styles reveal in miniature the broader trends across the decorative arts. In this lecture V&A curator Clare Phillips guides the audience through a century of jewellery design revealed in portraits - from the stately formality of eighteenth-century diamonds, through the neo-classical elegance of post-revolutionary Paris, to the softened naturalism and emerging historicism of the mid-nineteenth century. From diamonds to cut steel, jewellery is our principal focus, with portraits helping to tell the wonderful stories of the pieces and of their owners.��As above The Garrison Library doors will be open from 6.30pm for registration for all. Wine, lager and soft drinks will be available and you can socialise with other members and guests before the talk. ���Non-Members who wish to enjoy the lecture can pay £15 at the Garrison Library Door on entry or can pay £15 to the below account and advise us accordingly.
Bank details: Gibraltar International Bank
The Arts Society Gibraltar 14190001
Sort Code 60-83-14/SWIFT GIBK GIGI

Here are a selection of photographs from this album, 'Operational Photographs Taken at Gibraltar, 1940–1945', which document the military activity conducted on the Rock during the Second World War.