Diana Scarisbrick

Diana Scarisbrick, FSA, is a historian specializing in jewellery and engraved gems. She has curated exhibitions in the United Kingdom and abroad and has written many books, including, more recently, Rings: Jewelry of Power, Love and Loyalty (2007) and Portrait Jewels: Opulence and Intimacy from the Medici to the Romanovs (2011). For many years she was the historian of Chaumet, the great Parisian jeweller. As research associate at the Beazley Archive, Oxford, she collaborated with Professor Sir...See more

Diana Scarisbrick, FSA, is a historian specializing in jewellery and engraved gems. She has curated exhibitions in the United Kingdom and abroad and has written many books, including, more recently, Rings: Jewelry of Power, Love and Loyalty (2007) and Portrait Jewels: Opulence and Intimacy from the Medici to the Romanovs (2011). For many years she was the historian of Chaumet, the great Parisian jeweller. As research associate at the Beazley Archive, Oxford, she collaborated with Professor Sir John Boardman and Claudia Wagner on The Beverley Collection of Gems at Alnwick Castle (Philip Wilson Publishers, 2016). In 2014 she published with Benjamin Zucker the biography of Elihu Yale (Thames & Hudson). Her latest book Diamond Jewelry: 700 Years of Glory and Glamour (ISBN 978-0-500-02150-7) was published by Thames & Hudson in September 2019. See less