Engraved gems; their history and place in art, in which is embodied the author's former treatise, with extensive revisions and additions; reminiscences of travels in the pursuit and acquisition of engraved gems ... to which is added a descriptive list of the author's cabinet of gems, forming a compend of Greek and Roman classics and antiquities .. (1889)
Sommerville, Maxwell, 1829-1904 · Philadelphia, M. Sommerville · leaf 75
of Bene-detto Pistrucci, Calandrelli, Amastini, G. Pickler, Girometti,and others, in tlie close of the eighteenth nml the earlieryears of the nineteenth century, compares favorably evenwith that of Satvralus, Dioscorides, or Pyrgoteles of ancientGreek renown. The fjem-euffravers of Greece were… … GRECIAN. 71 whose peculiar designs and execution indicate that the artistwas reared where cyhnder- and seal-work had influenced theformation of his manner or style. The general character of their sixbjects is a galaxy ofmythological figures and groups and heads or miniatures onstone of deities,…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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