A study of the artist's way of working in the various handicrafts and arts of design (1905)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 155
CAMEOS OF THE HIGHEST CLASS undercut so that they project a little and are in that way thrown into still more visible relief. Fig. 173 is a photograph of one of the largest cameos known, perhaps the second in size of those … Fig. 173. Antique cameo : white figures on dark, warm brown. Art-History Museum, Vienna, Austria which antiquity has left us. This is in the Museum at Vienna, and measures about nine inches in width horizontally. As the subject is evidently the apotheosis of Augustus, who is seen enthroned and…
Art · Decorative arts
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