intaglio
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This Roman glass intaglio depicts the god Jupiter as an eagle.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
Gems he has returned and will now go on display include an intaglio made from black glass with a bust of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2024
A collection-based exhibition is now in the works, focusing on intaglio prints from the Renaissance to the present, likely to open in December.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
In her 2000 monotype and intaglio print “Got Milk!,”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2021
Instead, I am staring at the pile of notes, at the soft wax impressions, an intaglio in reverse.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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These intagli would be interesting relics for collectors of such flotsam and jetsam of a ruined dynasty.
From Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles by Andrew Lang
Antonio Pucci, in the eighty-fifth canto of his Centiloquio, distinctly states that Giotto carved the earlier ones, i primi intagli fe con bello stile, and Pucci was almost Giotto's contemporary.
From The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner
LAMBETH—Shortly before the closing of the court, Mr. Septimus Luker, the well-known dealer in ancient gems, carvings, intagli, &c., &c., applied to the sitting magistrate for advice.
From The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
"I have one or two intagli of much beauty," said Tito.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
But it were well that Messere should notify to thee what the gems are, together with the intagli they bear, as a warrant to Bartolommeo that they will be worthy of his attention.”
From Romola by George Eliot
The delicate intaglios, fashioned from amethyst, jasper and carnelian, range in diameter from 5 millimeters to 16 millimeters — bigger than a pencil eraser, smaller than a dime.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2023
The tradition of intaglios goes back to the Sumerian period in Mesopotamia, where figures were gouged by hand into softer stone.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2023
Auctioneer James Laverack said reverse crystal intaglios were a popular form of jewellery "for both gentlemen and ladies in the Late Victorian and Edwardian period".
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2018
Staff noticed a hidden drawer which contained about 30 items of jewellery, most with animal pictures on - called reverse crystal intaglios.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2018
But he worked as ever and put forth those polished intaglios called Poems in Prose, for the form of which he had taken a hint from Aloys Bertrand's Gaspard de la Nuit.
From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Charles Baudelaire
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