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
Sediles also is showing some abstract intaglio prints, bold and monochromatic, and two sketchy acrylics that follow the traditional wide-angle approach.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2015
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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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
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
At Santa Maria in Organo, where are the wonderful intagli of Fra Giovanni da Verona, the sacristan fully shared our sorrow that the best pictures could not be unveiled as it was Holy Week.
From Italian Journeys by William Dean Howells
"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 colorful intaglios — gems with incised carvings — likely fell out of signet rings worn by wealthy third-century bathers, and ended up trapped in the stone drains.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2023
Glassy conference rooms — more intaglios, more moss — were equipped with heavy black curtains, for those desiring to shop in private, with separate entrances to admit celebrities.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 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
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
It is only in certain designs on the terra-cotta discs, believed by Dr. Schliemann to be spindle-whorls, that we may possibly detect rude copies of Babylonian and Phœnician intaglios.
From The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes by Various
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