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| Anonymous Artist working in Italy Portrait of Borso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and Modena ca. 1450-70 opal cameo on carnelian base with gold mount Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Artist working in France Portrait of a Woman ca. 1550-1600 onyx cameo with enameled gold mount, set with diamonds Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Artist working in France Portrait of a Woman ca. 1550-1600 chalcedony cameo with enameled gold details and mount, set with diamonds and rubies Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
from Verses on Sir Joshua Reynolds' Painted Window at New College, Oxford
Lo, from the canvas Beauty shifts her throne,
Lo, Picture's powers a new formation own!
Behold, she prints upon the crystal plain,
With her own energy, th'expressive strain!
The mighty master spreads his mimic toil
More wide, nor only blends the breathing oil;
But calls the lineaments of life complete
From genial alchymy's creative heat;
Obedient forms to the bright fusion gives,
While in the warm enamel Nature lives.
– Thomas Wharton the Younger (1782)
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| Anonymous Artist working in the Netherlands Portrait of Emperor Charles V ca. 1556-58 onyx cameo with enameled-gold mount, set with rubies Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Jacopo da Trezzo Portrait of Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal ca. 1566 onyx cameo with enameled-gold mount Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Girolamo Miseroni Portrait of a Woman ca. 1575-1600 agate cameo with enameled-gold mount Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ottavio Miseroni Portrait of a Woman ca. 1600-1620 agate cameo with silver-gilt mount Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Artist working in Germany Emperor Ferdinand III ca. 1640-50 shell cameo with enameled-gold mount, set with turquoises Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Daniel Vogt Emperor Leopold I ca. 1669-70 emerald cameo with enameled-gold mount, set with diamonds Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Artist working in Germany Emperor Leopold I ca. 1690 agate cameo with gold mount Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Giovanni Pichler Emperor Joseph II ca. 1769 chalcedony cameo with gold mount Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Artist working in Austria Empress Caroline Augusta ca. 1820 agate cameo with gold mount Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Giovanni Beltrami Emperor Franz I ca. 1840 onyx cameo with enameled-gold mount Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Artist working in France Jeweled Bracelet of Empress Carlotta of Mexico ca. 1850-75 enameled-gold with diamonds and mounted miniature portrait Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |