The Gemma Augustea in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
The Gemma Augustea (Latin, Gem of Augustus) is an ancient Roman low-relief cameo engraved gem cut from a double-layered Arabian onyx stone. It is commonly agreed that the gem cutter who created it was either Dioscurides or one of his disciples, in the second or third decade of the 1st century AD.
The GemmaAugustea (Latin, Gem of Augustus) is an ancient Roman low-relief cameo engraved gem cut from a double-layered Arabian onyx stone. It is commonly...
been exposed to a wider audience. These include the GemmaAugustea in Vienna (which also has the Gemma Claudia showing the Emperor Claudius and his brother...
as sexual matters. The identity and interpretation of figures in the GemmaAugustea remains unclear. A number of gems from the same period contain scenes...
Lycian Sarcophagus of Sidon, Phoenicia, the Ara Pacis Augustae, the GemmaAugustea, and many pieces of the Hadrianic generation. 438 was the year of the...
Tropaeum Alpium (built for Emperor Caesar Augustus c. 6 BC) Spolia opima GemmaAugustea raising a tropaeum War memorial War trophy Thuc. 5.10.12 Thuc. 6.70...
the silver Warren Cup, glass Lycurgus Cup, and large cameos like the GemmaAugustea, Gonzaga Cameo and the "Great Cameo of France". For a much wider section...
pontifex maximus. Several cameo portraits include the Blacas Cameo and GemmaAugustea. Augustan and Julio-Claudian art Augustan literature (ancient Rome)...
featuring Augustus and his family with divine attributes, such as the GemmaAugustea, the Great Cameo of France and the Blacas Cameo (the last also in the...
the silver Warren Cup, glass Lycurgus Cup, and large cameos like the GemmaAugustea, Gonzaga Cameo and the "Great Cameo of France". For a much wider section...
would not have been exposed to a wider audience. These include the GemmaAugustea in Vienna, the Great Cameo of France in Paris and the Blacas Cameo in...
('opposite the ecumene') and the Antipodes ('opposite the feet'). The cameo GemmaAugustea includes a Roman artistic personification of Oikoumene as she crowns...
extremely rare—much more so than natural gemstone cameos such as the GemmaAugustea and Gonzaga Cameo, which are among the largest examples of many hundreds...
Cross of Lothair. In particular, imperial portrait cameos like the GemmaAugustea had tremendous prestige, and Renaissance elites were very keen to have...
innovation e.g. Cup of the Ptolemies but taken up by the Emperors e.g. GemmaAugustea, Gemma Claudia etc. Cast Iron Recently archaeologically detected in the...
been exposed to a wider audience. These include the GemmaAugustea in Vienna (which also has the Gemma Claudia showing the Emperor Claudius and his brother...
Cameo depiction of the ideal polis on the GemmaAugustea. The upper scene depicts the philosopher-king and other savants and warriors, while the lower...
imitating the effects of Ancient Roman carved gemstone cameos like the GemmaAugustea, or the cameo glass Portland Vase, of which Wedgwood produced copies...
Germanicus by Tiberius in 4 AD, also referenced on the cameo and in the GemmaAugustea. In the lowest level are captive barbarians. It appears to have come...
such as cameo glass, particularly Roman glass (e.g. Portland Vase, GemmaAugustea, Great Cameo of France, etc.). The undulating garland motif against...
or Second Augustan Legion Legio III Augusta or Third Augustan Legion GemmaAugustea or Augustan jewel Arch of Augustus (disambiguation) or Augustan Arch...
the silver Warren Cup, glass Lycurgus Cup, and large cameos like the GemmaAugustea, Gonzaga Cameo and the "Great Cameo of France". For a much wider section...
The GemmaAugustea onyx cameo depicting the elevated Augustus receiving a wreath (corona) amid divinities; below, soldiers erect a war trophy and ready...
percorsi della Storia. Minerva Italica. Milano tra l'eta repubblicana e l'eta augustea: atti del Convegno di studi - Milano 26–27 Marzo 1999. Milan: Grafiche...
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