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The Gemma Augustea in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. The Gemma Augustea (Latin, Gem of Augustus) is an ancient Roman low-relief cameo engraved gem cut from a double-layered Arabian onyx stone. It is commonly agreed that the gem cutter who created it was either Dioscurides or one of his disciples, in the second or third decade of the 1st ...
In New York one of the heads is interpreted as "a wind god, perhaps intended as a personification of the summer winds that brought the corn fleet from Egypt to Rome and so an oblique reference to Augustus’s annexation of Egypt after the defeat of Mark Antony and Cleopatra at Actium in 31 B.C.". [13] Cameo detail showing the royal diadem.
These include the Gemma Augustea in Vienna (which also has the Gemma Claudia showing the Emperor Claudius and his brother with their wives), the Great Cameo of France in Paris, the Blacas Cameo in the British Museum, and the portrait now re-used in the Cross of Lothair.
A Roman tropaeum from the Dacian Wars (Trajan's Column 113 AD), note the tree trunk with arm-like branches and the heaped armor and weapons at its base A Roman tropaeum in process of erection in the presence of male and female captives, detail from the Gemma Augustea, circa 20-30 AD A fully erected Roman tropaeum with shackled and addorsed seated man and woman Sarmatian captives (the woman on ...
They were very popular in Ancient Rome, especially in the family circle of Augustus. The most famous stone "state cameos" from this period are the Gemma Augustea, the Gemma Claudia made for the Emperor Claudius, and the largest flat engraved gem known from antiquity, the Great Cameo of France.
The large Gemma Augustea appeared in 1246 in the treasury of the Basilique St-Sernin, Toulouse. In 1533, King François I appropriated it and moved it to Paris, where it soon disappeared around 1590. Not long thereafter it was fenced for 12,000 gold pieces to Emperor Rudolph II; it remains in Vienna, alongside the Gemma Claudia.
Gemma Styles is a mom, making Harry Styles an uncle! On Feb. 23, the singer's older sister announced that she welcomed her first child, a baby girl, with her partner, Michal Mlynowski. Gemma ...
First-century Roman vase excavated from Pompeii. Roman cameo glass is fragile, and thus extremely rare—much more so than natural gemstone cameos such as the Gemma Augustea and Gonzaga Cameo, which are among the largest examples of many hundreds (at least) of surviving classical cameos produced from the 3rd century BC onward.