Giovanni Antonio Santarelli Cameo - Abandoned Ariadne ca. 1800-1820 sardonyx Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Of European cameos and intaglios carved since the Renaissance, the majority cannot be traced to an individual named artist. Those grouped here – from collections at the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg – are exceptional, because the names of their makers are recorded and remembered. Most such makers were Italian, where the craft was most ardently revived – in conscious competition with ancient Greek and Roman models.
Alessandro Masnago Cameo - Apollo slaying Python ca. 1575-1600 agate Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Niccolò and Gioacchino Morelli Cameo - Flora ca. 1820-40 agate Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Niccolò Morelli Cameo - Old Man ca. 1800-1830 agate Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Giovanni Pichler Cameo - Maenad riding Centaur ca. 1770-90 sardonyx Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Edward Burch Cameo - Antinous ca. 1775-1800 agate Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Niccolò Amastini Cameo - Oedipus and the Sphinx ca. 1800-1820 sardonyx Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Nikolay Shcherbaev Intaglio - Achilles Resting ca. 1820-30 sardonyx Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Giovanni Battista Weder Cameo - Alexander the Great and Olympiada 1780s agate Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Giovanni da Castelbolognese Intaglio - Fall of Icarus ca. 1540-45 rock crystal Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Giovanni da Castelbolognese Intaglio - Nessus abducting Dejanira ca. 1540-45 rock crystal Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Giovanni da Castelbolognese Intaglio - Venus and Adonis ca. 1540-45 rock crystal Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Galeazzo Mondella Intaglio - Venus and Mars surprised by Vulcan ca. 1500 chalcedony Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Benedetto Pistrucci Cameo - Bacchus (mounted on snuffbox) c1800-1830 sardonyx Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |