Benutti, Maria Antonia [UNESP]Costa, Maria Luiza Calim de Carvalho [UNESP]2016-03-022016-03-022012Proceedings of World Congress of Communication and Arts, v. 1, n. 1, p. 268-272, 2012.2317-1707http://hdl.handle.net/11449/134934Since the beginning of time man has used body ornaments, often-simple element of decoration, passing by the object ritualistic and religious icon, also as a symbol to the demonstration of status and power. Many of these objects have survived to today, but the vast majority is lost in time or was dismantled to reuse the material in new jewelry. The history of jewelry uses the pieces that have survived intact, documents and images of those jewels. This work uses of Visual Arts, more specifically the portrait art of, to analyze the mystical amulets of child`s protection jewel in works of painters Juan Pantoja dela Cruz and Diego Velásquez.268-272porAmuletsJewelArtsSiècle XVIIArtigoAcesso abertoISSN2317-1707-2012-01-01-268-272.pdf46515956315180255190303339099095