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The "Marlborough gem", onyx cameo (Boston Museum of Fine Arts)The "Marlborough gem" is a carved onyx cameo that depicts an initiation ceremony of Psyche and Eros. [1]It is the most famous engraved gem in the extensive and prominent collection both inherited (through a marriage in 1762) and expanded by George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough. [2]
The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas.
Cameo (apple), a cultivar of apple; Cameo (coinage), a finish evaluated in the process of coin grading; CAMEO (database), Conservation and Art Materials Encyclopedia Online, a Museum of Fine Arts, Boston database of technical terms used in art conservation and historic preservation; CAMEO (satellite), an experiment included in the Nimbus-G launch
Paraloid B-72 or B-72 is a thermoplastic resin that was created by Rohm and Haas for use as a surface coating and as a vehicle for flexographic ink.Subsequently, it has found popular use as an adhesive by conservator-restorers, specifically in the conservation and restoration of ceramic objects, glass objects, [1] the preparation of fossils, the hardening of piano hammers, [2] [3] and can also ...
William Sturgis Bigelow (April 4, 1850 in Boston, Massachusetts [1] –1926) was a prominent American collector of Japanese art. [2] The art collection trips he funded in the 1880s helped to form the standards by which Japanese art and culture were appreciated in the West.
CAMEO is a system of software applications used widely to plan for and respond to chemical emergencies. It is one of the tools developed by EPA ’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Response and Restoration (NOAA), to assist front-line chemical emergency planners and responders.
A materials database is a database used to store experimental, computational, standards, or design data for materials in such a way that they can be retrieved efficiently by humans or computer programs.
William George Constable (27 October 1887 – 3 February 1976) was an art historian and gallery director. He was the father of Medieval Historian Giles Constable.. William George Constable (left) was Curator of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for many years.