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The Gemma Augustea is a low-relief cameo engraved gem cut from a double-layered Arabian onyx stone. [1] One layer is white, while the other is bluish-brown. The painstaking method by which the stone was cut allowed minute detail with sharp contrast between the images and background, also allowing for a great deal of shadow play.
The Blacas Cameo. The Blacas Cameo is an unusually large Ancient Roman cameo, 12.8 cm (5.0 in) high, carved from a piece of sardonyx with four alternating layers of white and brown. [1]
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 ...
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.
Gemma Augustea Cameo – Roman, after 10 AD. Two-layered onyx. [16] "Tazza Farnese". An ancient Hellenistic bowl made of a very large cameo and purchased by Lorenzo de' Medici during the Italian Renaissance. Cup of the Ptolemies, a large Roman or Hellenistic vessel. Portland Vase, the best known piece of cameo glass.
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 ...
The book included essays by Albert Rubens on the Gemma Augustea and the Gemma Tiberiana. He relied for his interpretation of the Gemma Tiberiana on the correspondence between his father and de Peiresc. [1] This book was still highly regarded far into the 18th century.