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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 349537, member: 5833"]I should have said thank you, Marko, for this.</p><p><br /></p><p>It tells you a lot about my life that this is what passes for excitement. On the site I try to identify not just the subjects on cameos but also the art works behind them. Just lately found definitive answers for two of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>One that had been plaguing me for years, on both counts, used to be, & still is nearly everywhere, identified as Mary Magdalen. Another, where the subject was clear, has now been connected to the original. They can both be seen in the article on the <a href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/allegorical/anchor-of-hope" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/allegorical/anchor-of-hope" rel="nofollow">Anchor of Hope</a>. The second one is the lady in the turban.</p><p><br /></p><p>The one in between them, of the Galatea-inspired figure, is my new plague. Like the 'Magdalen', I can find a number of painted copies, but not the original painting or any attribution for it. Yet must have been well known at one time to have been picked up even in the world of cameos. If anyone finds her, please...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 349537, member: 5833"]I should have said thank you, Marko, for this. It tells you a lot about my life that this is what passes for excitement. On the site I try to identify not just the subjects on cameos but also the art works behind them. Just lately found definitive answers for two of them. One that had been plaguing me for years, on both counts, used to be, & still is nearly everywhere, identified as Mary Magdalen. Another, where the subject was clear, has now been connected to the original. They can both be seen in the article on the [URL='https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/allegorical/anchor-of-hope']Anchor of Hope[/URL]. The second one is the lady in the turban. The one in between them, of the Galatea-inspired figure, is my new plague. Like the 'Magdalen', I can find a number of painted copies, but not the original painting or any attribution for it. Yet must have been well known at one time to have been picked up even in the world of cameos. If anyone finds her, please...[/QUOTE]
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