Who is in love with Glyptics?
 

No, Glyptics - not the ancient nymph, which fell in love with one of their many gods of ancient Greece, it is not even some kind of show-business stars, ever-present in the pages of magazines people, do not expect me stories from burning jealousy, betrayals, breaks and reconciliation, although it also vyzyvalv passion. We can say that in the name glyptics been committed many crimes. This is the art of carving in precious and semiprecious stones. Subject glyptics are gems, which are subdivided into intaglios - stones with in-depth image, often served as seals, and cameo with the relief image.

Here are some examples of gems (the vast majority - cameos, but there are some intaglios), produced in very different times and in different styles.

I suggest you fill the leisure time in trying to identify a sample, which I propose to your enlightened attention:)

Continuation and completion.

cameo
 

It was an extensive collection of Catherine II. She treasured her even more than the collection of the Hermitage.

At number 4 pm - I think, in the middle of Х1Х. "Pushkin - the king of poets."

From the collection of Yves Saint Laurent: http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/l...ev&page=39

You are absolutely right:)

No, the pediment, is Hellenism, but in fact, very similar to Х1Х.
Actually, in my opinion, cameos always look much younger than his age (that would have them learn it!).

This story with attribution nepomnila my exam on Ap. Egypt in the first year. After I answered the questions on the ticket, moment of truth - Vsevolod Nikolayevich Pavlov handed me a photograph of a completely unknown to me and asked granite women atributirovt. I said: "This is the third millennium BC. "You're absolutely right!" - Said Pavlov. "No, this is, of course, Hellenism, but it's awfully similar to the 3rd millennium BC!" (as you can see, I just quoted the classics - but the cameo № 4.2 Hellenistic really!)
After the exam, his wife Nekrasov - a specialist in British art, has come after him. We heard her mutter: "You, Seva, again, all five set, Grashchenkov after swearing to be", to which he justified himself: "But Katya, girls (in the first year the population was exclusively female), all is not well known ... "

I must say, it is Pavlov's our first time in my life had the opportunity not only to consider the gems, but also to touch them, smell them and even lick. The fact that Pavlov, already very old, was half-paralyzed, and lectures frequently read at his house, where he showed us and gave his touch rich (collected before the revolution), a collection of stones.

When lectures were given at the university, then Nekrasov brought home long before the bell. The audience always gave him on the 1 st floor, but to rise to 4-m steps to the entrance to the building on Moss, required no less than an hour. Then she introduced him to the audience, seated, he took his healthy right hand of the patient, put it on the table, and the lecture began.

Must say at the Department of generations of art historians wrote the novel of the same department. In this novel, from which I have little to remember, was the phrase: "In the room quickly became Pavlov" - it caused Homeric laughter, though Pavlov's adored by all, without exception.

Egyptologist Pavlov - one of the brightest people with whom I was fortunate to be familiar.

There are some teachers who are popping in the lectures. We have to institute such was Vladimir D. Arakin, who knew 12 languages. In his lectures on the history of the language it was impossible to leave, so it was interesting. Even the death of his own father, I was told at his lectures.

same was fool-ka!

But this is the same!

LCR in the 19 century, I think they liked to copy, once saw them in the museum (do not remember in what), also had a whole collection), intaglio looks very interesting when you look at them do not even believe that they have now a "respectable" age.