Grand Camée de France

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Roman gem carving

  • Edmonia Lewis: Hagar
    In Western sculpture: Sculpture in the applied arts

    …Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, and the Grand Camée de France, a sardonyx in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, which were probably carved under Caligula and present, respectively, the apotheosis of Augustus and of Tiberius, the latter with Divus Augustus, also; and a sardonyx cameo of Claudius with Jupiter’s aegis. Late antique examples…

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