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 91
hecameos of the then known A\orld had been executed. TheByzantines seem to have profited by what proved to be amonopoly for them, and under Imperial patronage must havebeen industrious, judging from the scrijitural or religious cameoswe find in such quantities bearing uncpiestionably the… … BYZANTINE. BYZANTINE. 87 strange drinvin<4 and often giotesque designs of the Byzantines—tliose long mnscnlar arms witli awkward hands, yet so nat-ural; meagre, graceless forms, questionahle in their anatom}-;sinewy legs with cJumsy joints; feet distorted as by excessivejdodding; snd faces…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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