Cameo (carving)
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
- Great Cameo of France CdM Paris Bab264 n1.jpg
The Great Cameo of France, five layers sardonyx, Rome, c. 23 AD, the largest of Antiquity
- Adlerkameo KHM.jpg
Eagle Cameo, Roman 27 B.C. Two-layered onyx.
- Cameo August BM Gem3577.jpg
Cameo of Roman Emperor Augustus wearing a gorgoneion and a sword-belt. Three-layered sardonyx cameo, Roman artwork, c. 14–20 AD.
- Mary-Margaret-Bartelme-Bain.jpeg
Woman wearing a cameo at her throat, on a high lace collar in the Edwardian style
- Cammeo gonzaga con doppio ritratto di tolomeo II e arsinoe II, III sec. ac. (alessandria), da hermitage.jpg
The Gonzaga Cameo in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. The gem measures 15,7 x 11,8 cm.
- Agate portrait cameo A.jpg
A modern hand-carved portrait cameo of white on blue-layered agate, set in 18 kt white gold
- Cypraea tigris carved.jpg
A cameo carved into the dorsum of a shell of the tiger cowry, Cypraea tigris
- Cameo of Sardinian conch, Ascione e Antonio Mennella 1925, Museo Ascione.jpg
Cameo carved on Cassis madagascariensis by Ascione manufacture, 1925, Naples, Coral and Cameo Jewellery Museum Ascione
