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  Worldvisitguide > Places > Metropolitan Museum... > Etruscan and Roman Antiquities > Art from Southern Italy... > Two cupids pulling the...
Two cupids pulling the chariot of Venus over the sea
Artist : Anonyme

Model : Les Cupides
Relationship with : Vénus

Date : near 50 B.C.

Material : Cameo
Acquisition : Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan (1917)
Dynastie Julio-Claudienne
Item 20 on 102
Etruscan and Roman Antiquities
Dishes (Plat)

Vitrine : V01 (Ref. 10)

Area related
Empire romain


Description   

Cameo glass was extremely popular with the Roman aristocracy. Surviving pieces form some of the finest examples of ancient glassware.
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Item(s) related   
Art Institute of Chicago :
Italy 1500s
Venus and Cupid
Thème mythologique
Luca Cambiaso
near 1570

Carrousel Garden :
Works of Maillol
Vénus
Statue
Sculptures dans la ville
Aristide Maillol
1928

Hôtel de Soubise :
Chambre du Prince
Mars et Vénus
Thème mythologique
Charles-André van Loo (Carle Vanloo)

Louvre Museum :
Bouchardon. Sculptures du XVIIIème siècle. Les Bouchardon, Lemoyne, les Coustou
Vénus
Statuette
Guillaume II Coustou
Dimensions : 28 cm x 70 cm x 27 cm
near 1769
Charles Quint
Vénus
Statuette
Anonyme
near 1575
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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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