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  Worldvisitguide > Places > Metropolitan Museum... > Etruscan and Roman Antiquities > Art from Southern Italy... > Cameo glass cup fragment
Cameo glass cup fragment
Artist : Anonyme


Date : Ist century B.C.

Material : Cameo
Acquisition : Gift of Henry G. Marquand (1881)
Empereurs romains
Item 7 on 102
Etruscan and Roman Antiquities
Dishes (Verre)

Vitrine : V01

Area related
Empire romain


Description   

Roman decorative arts include subjects that are of an explicit sexual nature. Scenes of lovemaking appear on wall paintings, silver and pottery, terracotta lamps and on a cameo glass cup or a mold-pressed glass bowl.
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Les camées
Le terme de camée, emprunté de l'italien cameo est de même origine que camaïeu.

 
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