Capitolo 70
"A small sculpture performed in low relief on the substance precious
or for his/her beauty, the rarity or hardness." Cameos are usually
you cut in onyx, the different layers and stratifications of colour
being cut away to different depth, so that the sculpture appears
to be made in a colour on another, and sometimes three or
four layers are recognized, so that a shaded effect is gotten.
The certain hulls of pearly they are sometimes used for cut of cameo; these
it was popular in Italy in the fifteenth century. To Greece and Rome
the art of cameo to cut was brought to amazing perfection the,
sardonyx that you/he/she is frequently used, and it often cut in five different
layers of coloured. An ancient and enormous cameo, measuring on nine
thumbs through, Vienna can be seen to; it represents the apotheosis
of Augustus, and the scene is cut in two files of animate figures.
It is together from him the A. D. of first century that is in dark brown and white.
Among the treasures of the art-loving Henry III. it was a great cameo","
in a gilded case; it was worth two hundred pounds. This cameo was
supposed to compete with a famous job to Ste. Chapelle in Paris,
what you/he/she had been brought by Emperor Baldwin II. from Constantinople.
[The illustration: SARDONYX Cup, 11TH century Venice]
To Paris a flourishing guild, the "Lapidaries, Jewel Cutters it was,
and Engravers of Cameos and Hard Stones", in the thirteenth century;
cutters of glass in this body were included for once, but after 1584
the revised laws didn't allow of some imitative job, so glass
to the cutters it was not permitted anymore to connect the society. French work
it was rather common comparative with the classical examples.
The Vase in famous Portland is a cameo of glass of enormous proportions,,
and a job of the first century, in blue and white. There is a
characteristic legend connected with the famous cameo of stone known as the
Vase of Martin of Street as which it is follows: when Martin of Street visited
the Martyr's Field to Agaune, he prayed for of the time, and then
him hammered his/her knife in the earth, and you/he/she was excusably surprised to