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Portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga, Scorpion pendant, Bust of Paul II, Head of Hercules, Statutes of the goldsmiths’ art, gold art objects exhibition, silver art objects exhibition, art works, art works exhibitions, collecting cameos
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I. The taste for collecting cameos
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A GLASS JEWEL IN THE FLESH AND IN PORTRAIT
Raphael
Portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga
1500-1506
Oil on canvas
52.5 x 37.3 cm
Florence, Uffizi Gallery
Austrian glassworks
Scorpion pendant
1590-1591
Black opaque glass
6 x 3.6 cm
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Kunstkammer
I. The taste for collecting cameos
PAUL II BARBO
Giuliano di Scipione (or Scipio) Amici
Bust of Paul II
1470
Cornelian, gold and silver
60 x 36 mm
Florence, Palazzo Pitti, Museo degli Argenti
Joseph and his brothers
1240 circa
Five layer sardonyx, gold;
64 x 75 mm
St Petersburg, Hermitage State Museum
Artists from Northern Italy (ivory tablets) and Venetian goldsmith’s workshop (frame)
Queriniano diptych
V century AD (ivory tablets); after 1451-before 1457, 1740-1742 circa (frame)
Carved ivory, embossed, carved, engraved, gilded copper: engraved silver with niello decoration
255 x 149 mm (valve A); 256 x 148 mm (valve B); 283 x 173 x 23 mm (with cases)
Brescia, Santa Giulia, Musei Civici
Sostratos (attributed to)
Dionysus on a chariot driven by Psychai
Second half I century BC
Onyx-two layer sardonyx
33.9 x 42.6 mm
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
Gnaios (attributed to)
Head of Hercules
30-20 BC
Seven layer nickel
29.9 x 23 mm
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
Italian artist
Hercules and the Nemean lion
Mid XV century (?)
Sardonyx agate
30 x 28 mm
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
Bacchus crowned by Minerva (back) Mars and Venus (?) (front)
Before 1457 (cameo); 1600 circa (setting)
Onyx, gold, enamel and pearl
35 x 25 mm
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Antikensammlung
Engraver, first half I century AD
Bust of a princess or an empress represented as Juno
10-40 circa AD
Sardonyx, three layers, gold and rubies
49 x 36 mm
Florence, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
Triton, Venus and two cherubs
I-II century AD (?)
Chalcedony, gold
23 x 31 mm
Florence, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
Statutes of the goldsmiths’ art
1310-1694
Parchment codex of cards numbered 1-26
31 x 23,5 x 3,5 cm
Mantua, Archivio di Stato di Mantova
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