intaglio

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

Hundreds of historical images of Manhattan are rendered in sumptuous color or in monochromatic plates produced by intaglio, the method used to print currency.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2015

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

The figurative and the symbolic, the real and the surreal creep across Thomas Wood's intaglio prints.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2012

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

How many bachelor pads can or should sport the same narwhal tusk, set of framed intaglios and cluster of geodes?

From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 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

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

Cameo-work as compared with intaglios in classical times was rare and infrequent, but now and onwards the opposite is the case, intaglio-sinking having almost died out, and cameos being chiefly produced.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various