Cameo (carving)

The Great Cameo of France, a very large ancient Roman cameo in the Musée du Louvre, Paris

A cameo is a kind of small sculpture. A cameo has an image in relief. The image is often a different colour to the background. An intaglio is the opposite of cameo.^[1]

History

Cameos with portraits of people were common in the jewellery of Classical Antiquity. This type of cameo was also common in the Renaissance.^[1]

Cameo (carving) Media

The Great Cameo of France, five layers sardonyx, Rome, c. 23 AD, the largest of Antiquity
Eagle Cameo, Roman 27 B.C. Two-layered onyx.
Cameo of Roman Emperor Augustus wearing a gorgoneion and a sword-belt. Three-layered sardonyx cameo, Roman artwork, c. 14–20 AD.
Woman wearing a cameo at her throat, on a high lace collar in the Edwardian style
The Gonzaga Cameo in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. The gem measures 15,7 x 11,8 cm.
A modern hand-carved portrait cameo of white on blue-layered agate, set in 18 kt white gold
A cameo carved into the dorsum of a shell of the tiger cowry, Cypraea tigris
Cameo carved on Cassis madagascariensis by Ascione manufacture, 1925, Naples, Coral and Cameo Jewellery Museum Ascione

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Chilvers, Ian, ed. (2004). "cameo". The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3rd online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780198604761.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-860476-1.

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[:0-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Chilvers, Ian, ed. (2004). "cameo". The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3rd online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780198604761.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-860476-1.

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